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 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] 1 Casa Pia 2 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 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] scandal – at any rate a version of it – was laid out before her. A detailed retelling of that story of apparent British state murders and conspiracy is done by Olivia, using that Mossad-CIA report as the basis. Asil Nadir returned to Britain to face the charges against him, apparently believing he could […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] a really radical script simply wouldn’t get made. So who would bother to kill the writer when a word in the right ear would get the project dropped or modified? The answer to this may be that a criminal conspiracy within the US military would. But of that conspiracy there is no evidence. Robin Ramsay
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Alfred Milner – one of the key figures in the British ‘establishment’ for 30 years – could believe the Russian revolution was the work of a Jewish conspiracy (p. 25). And if Milner could contemplate this, could write of himself as a ‘race patriot’ (p. 26), perhaps the issue isn’t why Beamish et al […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] thinking is not official briefings, but ‘Fox News and Sean Hannity’. As they put it: ‘Fox’s fierce ideological angle, its lack of factual fidelity, its sympathy for conspiracy theories and the style in which it covers news and politics combine with Trump’s reluctance to absorb expert advice, meaning the president does not receive a […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] circumstances of the death began to seep out. Albarelli writes that ‘The story of his strange death has taken up permanent residence in the modern codex of conspiracy legend and lore’, and, further, his ‘death has become a touchstone for the fear of shadow government, and 4 Summer 2010 a focal point for justified […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] proceeded safely and soundly to a guilty verdict. Appendix 2: The Euromac trial On 12 June 1991 Mr Ali Daghir and Mrs Jeanine Speckman were convicted of conspiracy to export from the United Kingdom to Iraq 40 electrical capacitors alleged to be specially designed for use in a nuclear warhead. They were sentenced to […]