Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] be a coincidence of course, but this Observer piece appeared just after the rumour ran through the little group of journalists then working with Wallace that the BBC Panorama team were going to do a hatchet job on him. Chances are that Leigh and Lashmar were just hedging their bets in case Wallace turned […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] to the RV experiments in a letter to the Independent on Sunday, 1 October 1995. McRae, op. cit. 11, pp. 78-79, and Brian Josephson speaking on the BBC World Service radio programme ‘The Unexplained’, May 5, 1987. See Evan H. Walker, ‘Measurement in Quantum Mechanics Revisited’; Response to Phillip’s ‘Criticism of the Quantum Mechanical […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] new actor chosen to play ‘James Bond’ whooshing up the Thames – there has been very little sign of SIS. One ‘sighting’ was its condemnation of a BBC dramatisation of the early lives of Messrs. Blunt, Burgess, McLean and Philby: the dramatist was blamed for a sensitivity by-pass SIS itself had created.(12) Another was […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] devoted eight pages to him, and said he had been suffering from diabetes, heart trouble and pneumonia. Ceefax, on the other hand, the service broadcast by the BBC, devoted only one page, and announced he had been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. MI5 still in the building by any chance, Mr Birt? Who killed WPC […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] insurgents, and the relocation of whole communities. The area of the British state’s social control assets where colonial methods have been introduced wholesale is policing. As the BBC TV programme “Brass Tacks” on the police assaults on the miners at Orgreave and the students at Manchester University showed, the British police have now adopted […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] politic forces would emerge on top once Saddam was removed.’ In ‘Blair was warned of looming disaster in Iraq’, in The Daily Telegraph, John Ware trailed his BBC TV programmes on the subject and his opening sentence included this: ‘the former prime minister was told repeatedly about America’s lack of planning for peace and […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] Blunt’s memoirs are apparently safely locked up in the British Library along with the Magna Carta. Out this year is Dear Anthony by American John Costello and BBC researcher Cherry Hughes. Hughes, who has spent three years researching the book, says “He was a lot more important than has so far been admitted. It’s […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] net result may have been to omit words or qualifying statements or to present as certainties matters which were only probabilities misleading, though not, as the BBC, asserted, mendacious’ (p. 76) I leave it to the reader to consider the distinction between misleading and mendacious. This view is only of interest if the […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] issue 8, and looked it up. This is what they had published: ‘In Lobster 26 Robin Ramsay recalls the one section that was apparently cut from a BBC Panorama documentary on MI5 et al in 1981. This was Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, declaring: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Awards.For more recent views on the death of Dr. Kelly see Paul Brandon et al, ‘The death of David Kelly and the “sexed up” WMD report: was BBC Andrew Gilligan’s original source a senior member of Her Majesty’s Government?’ at . ‘The record on CURVEBALL: declassified documents and key participants show the importance of […]