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[…] 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 […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] to be excited about: a secondhand allegation. Then there was a second ‘SAS-killed-Diana’ story. In this one – in the Daily Express, which has run many Di conspiracy stories – Alan Power, author of The Princess Diana Conspiracy4 8 writes that a former member of the SAS unit called ‘the Increment’ claims that Diana […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global sex trafficking operation”’. (p. 171) The pervasive nature of this QAnon conspiracy culture saw Alpalus Slyman, the father of five children, become convinced in June 2020 that his wife was going to hand their children over to be […]

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[…] worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global sex trafficking operation”’. (p. 171) The pervasive nature of this QAnon conspiracy culture saw Alpalus Slyman, the father of five children, become convinced in June 2020 that his wife was going to hand their children over to be […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] relationships with women) by molesting and abusing teenage boys. His homely man-of-the-people act had a darker, bullying side. But was he part of a broader, overarching paedophile conspiracy? The evidence for that is not clear at all. Casting himself as a vigilante exposing perverts in high places, and with his wife building up an […]

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[…] 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 […]

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[…] 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 nonsense 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy is hard to imagine. The Times followed their tiny ‘scoop‘ with a version of three other familiar ‘British conspiracy theories’, as they put it, about Wilson. The Times sections are italicised A KGB plot One conjecture connects Harold Wilson to the sudden death of Hugh […]

The miners and the secret state

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[PDF file]: […] Heathfield’s then wife, the late Betty Heathfield, had been a member of the CPGB; it wasn’t hard for the secret state to present this as a communist conspiracy. In charge of MI5’s operation against the NUM, then the head of its F2 branch, Stella Rimington, wrote later: ‘The 1984 miners’ strike was supported by […]

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