The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] June, 2019 .) 12 13 This morally questionable but, nevertheless, legal explanation comes on p. 387. 14 p. 39 4 money? Looking beyond these character flaws, the conspiracy against him is well established by Rosthorn’s account. There are even hints that the intelligence services were involved. As well as Lord Peter Blaker having ‘longstanding […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] quite apart from anything else – an opportunist assertion of US power in general. In closing remarks, Harvey lambasts ‘….what amounts to academic groupthink – like other conspiracy theories, neoconism develops an entire narrative around a simplistic first image (leadership driven) theory6 about the Machiavellian brilliance and 6 Frank Harvey is here assuming the […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by his counterpart in MI6, but had no personal knowledge of, or planning role, in the incident.’6 Was the LIFG a terrorist organisation in 1996? This apparent conspiracy by MI6, using an Islamic extremist group to assassinate a foreign leader, was the moral tipping point for Shayler: ‘I joined the service to stop terrorism […]

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South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] because – unlike Bilderberg or similar effusions of establishment networking (including Davos) – they don’t appear to bear the imprint of political control or in extremis, ‘ conspiracy.’ Having said that, they are very obviously deeply committed to maintaining the fabric of the current social order. However I have not yet completed my list […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sure that chauvinistic Tories and crusty old English lawyers simply resent being told off by the UN. Censorship I’m also starting to take some of the ‘ conspiracy theories’ surrounding this case seriously. That worries me. I’ve always resisted this way of thinking, possibly naively. (It can be 2 See entries for 11 November […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] journalist described the CIA as ‘the single greatest cause of America’s world-wide unpopularity’, no less. Behind all this lay two things. The first was the idea that conspiracy was somehow a gentler way to effect political change than brute force, involving less bloodshed, at least among your own people. (‘Native’ blood, of course, was […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has a natural affinity for Russia. Russia treats him nice’. (p. 9) And this is quite a convincing argument. What we have is not a deliberate calculated conspiracy, something that Trump is not really capable of, but rather the Russians covertly supporting Trump and manipulating his affinity with – and liking for – Putin’s […]

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