[…] to do so but compromised and joined the Legion of Frontiersmen, a part-time military Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, […]
[PDF file]: […] via the ballot box – Labour received 37.1% of the votes in the February 1974 election and the Communist Party 0.1% – mattered not.(55) A secret communist conspiracy was, by definition, secret. Tony Benn was the focus of the anxieties at parliamentary level. In this period he was being surveilled, bugged, wire-tapped, harassed and […]
[…] deal was the original ‘October surprise’. me, I don’t know which one, that Gemstones are forever The first thing I wrote was a critique of an American conspiracy theory called the Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File which was circulating in pamphlet form in the UK in 1976/7.28 Gemstone was the first conspiracy theory […]
[PDF file]: […] the Justice Department Dragon and securing his re-election as King on the Land of the Free’s Choosing Day! The Department of Justice (DOJ) is one of Patel’s conspiracy obsessions. And we can be absolutely confident that Trump has read and really enjoyed these cretinous contributions to the corruption of children’s literature: he has publicly […]
[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.33 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.34 28 29 30 or 31 Notably The Man Who Knew too Much . 32 See, for example, […]
[…] of parapolitics T l1e provenance of LOBSTER is as unusu �l as its name. In 1982, Robin Ra1nsay and Stephen Dorr1l, h10 of Great Britain’s self-proclaimed eminent conspiracy theorists, decided to emulate the radical anti-CIA Professor Peter Dale Scott (University of California, Berkeley), wl1om they admired. 100 Tl1ey did so by ptiblishing a small […]
[PDF file]: […] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[…] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[PDF file]: […] in America, from the mafia to US Steel, his eventual murder feels unsurprising. He does not suggest a solution. He asks (p. 284): ‘Was there an assassination conspiracy, as Bertrand Russell and his Committee feared?….’ This is odd. Like most of the better writers on the subject, he may not be sure of the […]
[PDF file]: […] New Scientist had announced the research by Dr Sherman et al. in an article on 22 January 2019, with the headline: ‘Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory’.4 New Scientist stated on 22 January 2019: ‘Adolf Hitler’s deputy flew to Scotland in 1941 and was imprisoned for the rest of his life. But […]
