Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: ‘Oh, you don’t want to go there!’ The first agreed enthusiastically, and a kind of double-act developed: ‘ Mind control?’ ‘Don’t want to go there!’ ‘Remote viewing?’ ‘Don’t want to go there!’ ‘Hilda Murrell?’ ‘Don’t want to go there!’ After a couple of minutes of […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] Plimpton avoided me, but I put that down to the fact that he was absorbed in hosting the event. I filed away in the recesses of my mind what Linville had said with the Patsy Southgate revelations and thought no more about it. I did wonder why they had told me these things. After […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] talk to the far right but when he does so he is an ‘errand boy’. ‘One of Searchlight’s regular themes is to associate me in the public mind with former NF Directorate member and current Third Way activist Patrick Harrington, whom I have interviewed (along with others) for my research….. Patrick Harrington’s stated position […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] for journalists, they have, with a few honourable exceptions, been shown to be crass, hysterical morons, historical and political illiterates unable to see beyond the simplistic bipolar mind set of a conflict that ended a decade ago. Working themselves into a foam-flecked apoplexy, they have charged like a lynch-mob after a silly old Tankie, […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] Bush, 2008, under the pseudonym Ernest Organic. It perhaps has a psychological parallel in the work of Jung, where the potentially threatening dark confusion of the unconscious mind can, if faced and accepted, rather than being repressed, become a source of strength and energy, just as the apparently dead matter in the soil becomes, […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] ‘Your father was always worried about Korea.’ (1) Further, according to Eric, while he and everyone else were fixated for years on his father’s role in ‘ mind control’ experiments, Frank Olsen’s speciality was actually the aerosol delivery of anthrax. This only emerged in late 2002 in the wake of the anthrax scare in […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] which safeguarded the route to India. It was at this point that Britain’s Liberal government decided on intervention. It hoped for French support, which would, in Gladstone’s mind at least have helped to preserve some element of international respectability about the enterprise – but none was forthcoming. So a unilateral British invasion occurred. Arabi’s […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] that the authorities in Nottingham would use their own police officers to resolve what was a civil law situation, but that’s Thatcher for you.’(24) All in the mind? A series of experiments ‘tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception… …as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set of random […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] Still very much in the land of the living is an old political associate of both departed peers, Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. A teasing thought crossed my mind during the phoney leadership war in the days before the Labour Party conference when Toynbee switched her allegiance to David Miliband from Gordon Brown. (We are […]