Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] 1987, notably through the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the claim being that the operations against the Wilson government were designed to ‘stabilise’ not destabilise it; and by BBC TV producer Peter Taylor, who argued (Sunday Telegraph (21 January 1990) that ‘there was a conspiracy to remove from Northern Ireland but the purpose I believe […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] Atlanticist freemasonry in 1987. BAP was not just a rite of passage for Baroness Scotland. She continues to serve on the UK advisory board with her old BBC pal James Naughtie and Mike Maclay, the man from Hakluyt. The small irony she may have pondered as she flew west on behalf of the wealthy […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] or the Bank of England. Cromer backed down in a hurry. On 3 January 1997 the Guardian carried a long, splendidly condescending letter from John Cole, erstwhile BBC political editor, pointing out that this Wilson-Cromer conflict was not news, that it had been described in great detail in, for example, Wilson’s own account of […]

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Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] April.(2) No newspaper reported his dramatic revelations about the way the Blair government had changed policy to permit the use of intelligence material gained by torture. The BBC provided the only report I could see. The Quick and the dead Thanks to Craig Murray,(3) I twigged why Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick might have been […]

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The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Oldfield who was by then ‘C’, to speak up in its defence. But latterly he confessed himself defeated by the left-wing clique who had a grip on BBC and independent television networks, and who deliberately and effectively distorted programmes on security matters. The exceptions were Robin Day and the ITN editors who always gave […]

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New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] general council for much of that period; Sir John Boyd, general secretary of the AUEW from 1975-82, also on the TUC general council, a governor of the BBC and a director of British Steel; Terry Casey, general secretary of the teachers’ union NAS/UWT and vice-president of the pro-NATO teachers’ union international; Lord Collinson, general […]

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Spies, Lies, and the War On Terror

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

Paul Todd, Jonathan Bloch, and Patrick Fitzgerald London: Zedbooks, 2009, £14.99, p/b, £39.95 h/b   This book is published as the debate rages in America about whether or not the activities of the Bush regime, specifically the torture of various combat detainees and suspects rendered from various parts of the world, should be subject to […]

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The Party of Business and the Business of Parties

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] 1st November 2002 on the occasion of her resignation: ‘I feel strongly that minimum standards of accountability and probity have not been upheld by some leading officers and members of the executive.’ According to the Tribune article, Ms Davis was referring to ‘allegations of financial malpractice’. 4 Any Questions, BBC Radio 4, 25 October 2002

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Rich Britain: The rise and rise of the new super-wealthy

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] any normal sense of that term, and have largely exploited their powerful positions at the expense of employees and shareholders as well as the Revenue. As a BBC journalist Lansley knows from experience how much of the corporation’s licence fee for programme making is diverted into the pockets of a handful of big-name presenters, […]

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Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] Kinnock’s Making Our Way (Blackwell, Oxford, 1986). Bryan Gould, Goodbye To All That, (Macmillan, London, 1995) p. 202 Gould p. 205. Eatwell is now Lord Eatwell. Duckworth/ BBC, 1982 See note 24 above Gould p. 209 This is discussed below. To my knowledge neither has explained this change and I am unable to date […]

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