Robin Ramsay is a political author

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 and British

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 magazine editor

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. Ramsay writes about politics and conspiracy theories. His books have been published by HarperCollins

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 and Pocket Essentials

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Ramsay studied at Stirling University but left after a term and moved to London

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. He later took a degree at Hull University. While there, he became interested in the John F. Kennedy assassination

John F. Kennedy assassination

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While investigating the case Ramsay met fellow Kennedy assassination enthusiast Stephen Dorril and together they started a magazine about parapolitics. Lobster

Lobster (magazine)

Lobster is a twice yearly British magazine focusing on parapolitics. The last issue to appear in printed form, was published in June 2009 - two more issues have appeared online since then in December 2009 and June 2010....

first appeared in September 1983 as a 24-page A5

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 magazine. He also draws on his research and writes a regular monthly column in the Fortean Times

Fortean Times

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Published books

• Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (1992) HarperCollins
  HarperCollins
  HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
  
  , ISBN 0586217134 (co-authored with Stephen Dorril)
• Prawn Cocktail Party: The Hidden Power of New Labour (1998) Vision Paperbacks, ISBN 1901250202
• New Labour (2002) Pocket Essentials
  The Pocket Essentials
  The Pocket Essentials is a series of small, A6 sized books on various subjects. The publisher is also known as Pocket Essentials as well. Each book is written by a different author...
  
  , ISBN 1903047838
• Conspiracy Theories (2006) Pocket Essentials, ISBN 190404865X
• Politics and Paranoia (2008) Picnic Publishing ISBN 0955610540
• Who Shot JFK? (2nd ed. 2009) Pocket Essentials, ISBN 184243232X

External links

• Lobster magazine homepage