[…] were the ‘radical right’ in America for whom Tragedy and Hope became a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy nonetheless. But apart from them, the only people who […]
Pat Daly was the prime prosecution witness at the trial of two Irish National Liberation Army men at the Old Bailey in 1993. They were accused of conspiracy to steal explosives, conspiracy to cause explosions and possession of firearms with intent to endanger life. Daly lived in Bristol at Southmead from 1969 to 1989. […]
[…] sovereignty is abandoned, and we are completely at its mercy, it will drop its disguise as the foe of Russian aggression and betray us to the Soviet conspiracy as surely as it betrayed us at Yalta through the incredible simpleton Roosevelt and his incredible adviser, Alger Hiss. Hiss, let it be known, was only […]
[…] To its content I will return. But who is the author? Chamish is one of those names you cannot avoid if you potter around in the American conspiracy sections of the Internet; and bits of this book’s thesis have been posted here there and everywhere in the last few years. This is Chamish’s account […]
[PDF file]: The Conspiracy and Democracy Project Robin Ramsay W ith a grant from the Leverhulme Trust, the Conspiracy and Democracy Project began in January 2013 at Cambridge University, with some academics at the helm.1 The title of the project, Conspiracy and Democracy, might suggest that it is going to deal with the issue of how […]
[PDF file]: Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19 Clare Birchall and Peter Knight London: Routledge, 2023, £17.49, p/b Robin Ramsay Birchall is new to me1 but Professor Peter Knight has been in these columns before. Almost 20 years ago Anthony Frewin reviewed Knight’s Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files.2 Frewin was […]
[PDF file]: Oh, conspiracy! Robin Ramsay The Guardian has been having an attack of conspiracy theory anxiety. First there was the piece on 18 December by Natalie Nougayrède, the former diplomatic correspondent and later editor of Le Monde, ‘The conspiracy theories of extreme right and far left threaten democracy’.1 The subhead, expressing her thesis, was this: […]
[PDF file]: The perennial conspiracy theory The Perennial Conspiracy Theory: Reflections on the History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Michael Hagemeister London: Routledge, 2021, £44.99, h/b The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination Richard J Evans London: Penguin, 2021, £9.99, p/b John Newsinger The Protocols of Hate In the summer […]
[PDF file]: Conspiracy theory in America Lance deHaven-Smith Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013, $20, h/b In a 2006 essay, ‘When Political Crimes Are Inside Jobs: Detecting State Crimes Against Democracy’, Professor deHaven-Smith gave us the term SCAD, state crime against democracy. When I read his essay I didn’t think the term had much chance […]
[…] of their audio files, telephone conversations and situation room discussions, all recorded during the 9/11 attacks.(28) Is all this information too late? According to one study, ‘ conspiracy thinking is now a normal part of mainstream political conflict in the United States’ especially amongst members of less powerful groups who are ‘more likely to […]
