From Bevan to Blair: 50 years reporting from the political front line

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] the union leaders, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, had been promoted to the status of the front men for a Soviet revolution in the UK in the conspiracy theories of a faction of the British spooks which had Thatcher’s ear at the time. If Scanlon-Jones were suspect, so were their associates; and Goodman was […]

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] today. Directive number N/99639 of BIS demanded the establishment of a net of Agents among their residents in Europe. These groups, whose purpose was to have been conspiracy only, were prepared for carrying out activities of sabotage, diversion and terror in cases of ‘special circumstance’ all in case of worsening relations in those states. […]

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Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency 1944-60

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like IRD’s […]

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The rise of warfare capitalism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] a Marxist program to enable it to root itself in the working-class. This is why within the global anti-capitalist movement infantile and often deeply reactionary and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories (references to the Illuminati and all that crap) proliferated at the expense of Marxism. It was compounded to some extent by the naïve belief that […]

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Nexus: postmodernism or what?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] also the second part of a long piece by Uri Dowbenko, now working with Steamshovel, who is making another attempt at a sort of Christic Institute mega conspiracy theory about the CIA and drugs. It includes what purports to be an affidavit from the Reagan-era Director of the CIA William Casey. (To me it […]

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The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] felt in the 1980s) when the Tory right, briefed by a section of the British spooks, believed that the Labour Party and the unions were a Communist conspiracy and were thus ‘a legitimate target’. Oborne’s idea of ‘political’ simply does not encompass activities by the state, let alone the secret state. In one sense […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] notes) which contains a lot of new material. Black is that unusual creature, an academic historian who has included Bilderberg in his account. AIDS Remember all the conspiracy theories claiming that the AIDS virus had been a US military experiment? This seemed to have been dealt with when word emerged from the former Soviet […]

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The view from the bridge

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[…] this before it was posted?’ *new* Thought for the day Someone called Tom (no surname) emailed me wondering about the current validity of Anthony Summers’ distinction between conspiracy theories and theories about conspiracies. Tom wonders if it wouldn’t make more sense to describe contemporary phenomena – such as QAnon – as conspiracy ideologies. There […]

Misc reviews

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[…] witnesses who saw things which didn’t fit the official verdict of ‘pilot error’ were marginalised or ignored and photographs were doctored. It looks like the standard formula: conspiracy and cover-up. The evidence assembled over the 50 years since can be construed to plausibly support a scenario in which the plane was brought down by […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] witnesses who saw things which didn’t fit the official verdict of ‘pilot error’ were marginalised or ignored and photographs were doctored. It looks like the standard formula: conspiracy and cover-up. The evidence assembled over the 50 years since can be construed to plausibly support a scenario in which the plane was brought down by […]

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