Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] Spending Review indicated that, if there is money to spare, it would go to the security and intelligence services and into soft power arrangements (such as the BBC Arabic and Farsi broadcast channels) and not into the sort of military resource that could cope with more than one military intervention at a time. The […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] leads a campaign to join the euro (via two year membership of the ERM) with the great and the good, the CBI, the big multi-nationals and the BBC and ITV. This succeeds narrowly and the UK duly enters the ERM – at around 3 D-marks to the pound – too high for the manufacturing […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] French investigators allegedly showed Diana with her eyes open, apparently conscious and unhurt, and with no sign of blood on her body or her clothes.(33) Some early BBC bulletins even went so far as to describe her as ‘…walking and talking with a broken arm…'(34) Although the initial diagnosis of Diana’s condition may not […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] by the Vatican to shore up the Italian state; and a suggestion that John Connally is linked to Mafia figures. (SD) 22. Two large articles by ex- BBC Journalist Tom Bower on Klaus Barbie and his links with US intelligence. (ST 3rd July, IHT 6th July, 1983). The articles are similar, though the IHT […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] remains to be seen. Notes 1 < www.innocent.org.uk > 2 Don Hale, Town Without Pity, (London: Century, 2002), pp.196-7. 3 His story is being made into a BBC TV drama for February/March 2004 called ‘In denial of murder’. 4 < www.pca.gov.uk/investig/others.htm > 5 The new Code of Conduct (Schedule 1 of the Police (Conduct) […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] trend to target children; e.g. and however exciting, an espionage exhibition at a national London museum. The tactic is straight out of the marketing manuals. See ‘Ex- BBC and Blair aides hired’, The Independent 1 July 2006. The media played into its hands by publicising the incident, providing thousands of pounds of free advertising. […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] entail a complete revision of extant accounts of that event; and students of the media will have to take on board the chapter on IRD and the BBC – not to mention the extraordinary fact that as late as 1976, 92 British journalists were on IRD’s distribution list. So how many were on the […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] with Lewis’ wife, Jane. The case became known as the ‘It’s a Knockout’ trial because the affair started when the couple organised a local heat of the BBC TV competition.” (Leveller ibid) In a recent report from David McKittrick, Wallace admitted to him that British intelligence had been guilty of serious misbehaviour. This included, […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] Lobster 19 we referred to Keston College as a probable MI6 operation. One of our readers had the wit to send our reference to Keston to the BBC, asking for comments. The editor of the Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday’ replied that ‘It is not the first time we have encountered such suggestions, and we […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] Heathfield show no scramble by Deere and Hanbury. Again, base records disagree with the personal log books of pilots. In an interview with McRoberts for a 1984 BBC documentary, Al Deere talked about the scramble, by referring to his log book and suggesting the reason he failed to kill the 110 was that the […]