Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico: new leads

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The League of Empire Loyalists and the Defenders of the American Constitution

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] 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 access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?

Book cover
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] 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 […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The Strange Case of Patrick Daly, MI5 agent

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

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. […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[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 […]

Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[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: […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[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 […]

Conspiracy theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

RE:

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] 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 […]

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Accessibility Toolbar