Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Don't like them, never have.
AJP Taylor, one time Emeritus Professor of History at Oxford (if I remember correctly) once said, 'If you wish to understand history, look for the cock-up not the conspiracy'. Well something like that. And I think that he was dead right.
I am not denying conspiracies: they happen all the time. But in my view, practical conspiracies have to be small which is to say restricted to a few. For sure, the consequences may be big - I mean it just took 3 guys to slay Julius Caesar.
But it's the big ones that bother me like the assassination of JFK, Apollo 11 and Princess Di. How on Earth do you engineer things like that and keep everyone's gob shut?
Load of bollocks if you ask me.
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