Conspiracy: The greatest cover-ups and unsolved mysteries

by Ian Shircore

Did COVID-19 actually break out to kill 6 million people because of a leak from a Chinese laboratory? What are the links between QAnon and Russiagate, Alex Jones and Donald Trump? Why did our own MI5 try to block evidence about the death of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly and the radioactive poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko?

Putin is a brute who lies as a matter of policy. Hitler tried to blame Poland for starting WWII. We live in a world of fake news and false flags, secret plots and unexplained deaths. But what on earth can you believe, when nothing's ever quite what it seems?

In Conspiracy, Ian Shircore cuts through the fog and the fairy tales to deliver a balanced analysis of the stories that shape the times we live in. New evidence - from Freedom of Information requests, WikiLeaks files, deathbed confessions and declassified archives - has solved some classic mysteries. Yet it raises more questions than ever about the assassinations of the 1960s, the dirty secrets of the late 20th century and the deadly traumas of the last few years.
Now fully updated with new cases, material and evidence.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

386 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 23, 2022

About the author

Ian Shircore's mission is to rescue Clive James's poems from the "poetry ghetto" and bring them to people who would never normally read poetry (and would certainly not pick up a book about poetry).

Clive wrote some real duds - not surprising in the course of a 60-year career and more than 300 poems. But he also hit some wonderful highs. And like every other writer, musician or artist, he deserves to be remembered for his greatest work, rather than some dull, actuarial average. Would you choose to judge The Beatles by Run For Your Life, Octopus's Garden and Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey, or by their finest creations, like Strawberry Fields, Blackbird and Please, Please Me?

Some of Clive's best poems are already well known. The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered is still going strong, 37 years on, and Japanese Maple is loved all over the world. But there are others, like Use of Space, At Ian Hamilton's Funeral and The Falcon Growing Old, that are just as moving. All I want is for more people to discover them and share the joy.

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most reviews complain on here on there not being too much detail on each case, but I think that’s why I enjoyed it. It gave me a short overview that either encouraged me to explore more of or leave my knowledge there.

[Keeley B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Put conspiracies in a clearer light and give you additional information of finding documents mentioned in each chapter, but the book could have had a better reading flow

[Arild Nygaard · Rating 2 out of 5]

It felt like a lot of his reviews of different conspiracies were rather shallow. Some were much more in depth than others. Some aspects were interesting, but not a great book.

[Alexandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read, but i personally would’ve liked more in-depth arguments and research.

[Arman Hilmioğlu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good book lots of interesting material. It makes a good conversation topic, since so much of the theories are well known. From Elvis, Marilyn Monroe to JFK, Covid 19 to Chemtrails…there were a few more that I read about before, so if was good to go deeper.

[Lord Bathcanoe of Snark · Rating 1 out of 5]

Conspiracy Boys
who believe all that
Ain't got girlfriends
Just a tin foil hat.

Sit in their bedrooms
ranting and raving
Detached from the World
they believe they are saving.