Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24 Andrew Rosthorn Thirty years of self-funded investigations into the failed Rudolf Hess peace flight have taken John Harris and Richard Wilbourn close to British secrets that were beyond the ken of Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and quite possibly unknown to Churchill. The astounding events of 10 May 1941, when Hitler’s […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] harbours for the descendants of its slave population was now reshaped as a version of anti-communism, which of course had to be rooted in an alleged foreign conspiracy – conceived in the Soviet Union of course. In the ante-bellum era as well as the period before the UDI of 1776, slaveholders regularly asserted that […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[PDF file]: […] from the Right.2 No wonder the remaining CPGB members were so shocked in 1991 when they discovered that the right’s view of the CPGB as a Moscow-directed conspiracy turned out to be partly true. Former member and CPGB employee, journalist Sarah Benton, reacted with talk of ‘the other communist parties’, meaning, I guess, various […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] and a former banker for Hill Samuel, First National Bank of Chicago and Citibank, she told Theo Panayides of the Cyprus Mail: ‘It was all a great conspiracy. They had no evidence against Asil Nadir, and they wanted me to spill the beans. There’s something else you should know: they put a spy into […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] as a soldier were tactical rather than strategic. When it came to the strategic situation the US found itself in, he increasingly embraced a variety of neo-con conspiracy theories that were bolstered by what his staff derisively called ‘Flynn facts’; that is ‘facts’ that were not actually true. Conflict with other agencies and with […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] the support of the majority of Labour Party members in London, something he considers so odd that it can only be explained by the existence of a conspiracy against him. Piara Khabra died in 2007, and therefore cannot sue. Many of those mentioned unflatteringly in the book are similarly deceased. The bigger picture And […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[PDF file]: […] Consequently he has missed the extent to which Mrs Thatcher was, in the shorthand of the British Right, ‘a patriot’; in other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge […]