Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] to creating a ‘Weishauptian world rule’.6 0 The historical record is less convincing. Despite their support for a number of geopolitical 57 ‘Iraq war illegal, says Annan’, BBC News, 16 August 2004. 58 Philippe Sands, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, (London: Allen Lane, 2005), p. 203; and Richard […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words I’d heard on the BBC were there. But so was her description of how as a 21-year-old Oxford student the then Shirley Catlin was funded by the US government to take […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] McEnany, For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond (Saint Petersburg ; Liberatio Protocol, 2021), 1 1 Jon Sopel, the BBC correspondent, reported this episode, ‘innocent protestors exercising their First Amendment rights . . . were tear-gassed and rubber-bulleted out of the way’ for a ‘photo-op pure […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] – no evidence could be found that Smith had ever been arrested with a car boot full of sex magazines. After Danczuk first outed Smith (in 2012), BBC Newsnight ran a lengthy piece on the case. Careful scrutiny indicated that those making claims against Smith seemed to be alleging physical mistreatment (being knocked around, […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] inserted into the PLO and then smuggled into Germany to wreck a Palestinian bombing campaign was filmed by Hollywood in 1983 and again for television by the BBC in 2018.7 Imitating The Little Drummer Girl, within months of its publication, by infiltrating a transgender Manchester-born woman into a real PLO splinter group, appears so […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: Murdoch: wounded but not dead Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power David McKnight Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2012 W hat has been Rupert Murdoch’s response to ‘Hackgate’? He has made clear his willingness to throw overboard as many people, reporters and executives, as are necessary in order to protect his son, James. He has […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: ‘We’re doomed!’ A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks Nick Must The broadcasting by the BBC during the Christmas period 2015 of a comedy drama based around the creation of the Dad’s Army television series, reminded me of how the Home Guard were used during World War II as the cover for […]