Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] and the related vast subsidy, wasn’t extended to the Nimrod programme. The absence of an urgent letter from Sir Nicholas MacPherson advising ministers is also noteworthy. ‘Official’ conspiracy theory The death of Major General John Strawson was noted by a couple of broadsheet obituaries recently. Strawson collaborated with Sir John Hackett as the (uncredited) […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] time being two hours behind Texas. Despite Mellen’s tremendous research none of this is clear yet. Billie Sol Estes, who named Wallace as part of the JFK conspiracy, is dismissed after Mellen shows that he was a fraudster and a liar and compares and contrasts the many vague, contradictory and ambiguous things Estes said […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘the most prominent of our modern evils’; and that ‘human beings in modern cultures still seem to need the sense that they are battling against an evil conspiracy.’ Of this second claim I am unconvinced. Webster’s analysis of the Bryn Estyn case and this more recent one seems to me to explain how these […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Dorril need to tell lies about something so piffling? Chemtrails Chemtrails – high altitude aerial spraying for purposes unknown – have become a regular feature on US conspiracy theorists’ websites and are now starting to appear in the UK equivalents. If you presume it’s all hogwash, take a look at . If that isn’t […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] One extremely useful thing she does is explore the origins of the George Soros scam. She sees it as following ‘the pattern of a classic, historical anti-Semitic conspiracy theory . . . The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, but as having originated with Viktor Orbán, the right–wing authoritarian Hungarian politician. He was friendly […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Readers of Lobster may well encounter the rough ’ conspiracy theorists’ abuse routinely dished out to anyone questioning an orthodox explanation of events. And, indeed, we do well not to seek over-simple, monochrome accounts of complex occurrences. This is a messy world where the level of institutional core […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] unions leaders were agents of Soviet intelligence.2 6 Frolik was being run by the CIA and Dorril and Ramsay viewed this process as evidence of how the conspiracy theories of the subversive-hunters of the British right, such as Brian Crozier, had captured a significant section of the leadership of the Conservative Party which had […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] London. In 1965, Chesterton published his influential book, The New Unhappy Lords, which Macklin sums up as ‘an elegantly written anti-Semitic assault upon the subversive and occult conspiracy which was supposedly seeking to replace the British Empire, and subjugate Western civilisation in general, to a “One World” Jewish super-state’. (p. 219) By now Chesterton […]