Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] played a significant role in this.()Programmes either ridiculing local government or calling it into question (‘Beadle’s About’, ‘That’s Life’, for example) are ultimately quite corrosive. The current BBC approach to reporting serious issues, Paxman scoffing at all interviewees, the daily knocking copy of the ‘Today’ programme and the various polite but lightweight Dimbleby panel […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] a one-sided struggle. The ‘yes’ campaign had unlimited funding, the support of the City of London, the large British companies, the British state, its broadcasting apparatus (the BBC) and almost all the rest of the media, as well as covert assistance from the CIA and IRD. The ‘no’ campaign was out-spent ten or fifteen […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] London’s gay scene. There are also more detailed accounts of a number of the episodes in Pencourt, including the moves made by the higher management at the BBC to shut them up; the Peter Bessell version of events, the perambulations of Norman Scott – and the actual conspiracy to murder him. But in ignoring […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] current situation it is possible that the FCO are entirely happy to have Murray’s comments made available but are unable to admit so publicly. Reported on the BBC News Website of 3 August 2006. . See Richard Beeston and Tom Baldwin, ‘New blow for Blair over his policy on Lebanon’, The Times 2 September […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
