Operation Black Dog

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] Fuel Air device destroyed all evidence of the illegal counter-strike too, by incinerating bodies. In the search for corroboration I was advised to contact Tim Sebastian, former BBC correspondent and well-known author. Sebastian confirmed he also had the same information as I, and recommended I contact the Countess of Mar – a member of […]

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No smoke without fire?

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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 […]

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Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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 […]

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View from Bridge

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[…] Strands of the Trump Coup Attempt https://www.thebulwark.com/the-six-main-strands-of-the-trump-coupattempt/?amp https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kleptocracy-problem/summary Mena https://www.judicialwatch.org/guns-drugs-cia-at-mena-arkansas-judicialwatch-demands-answers/ https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00058/mazur-deeper-into-theclintons-cia-drug-nexus.htm https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/06/despite-heard-didnt-load-guncapitol-hill-attack/ Despite what you’ve heard, I didn’t load the gun for the Capitol Hill attack The BBC wanted to tell a story about runaway conspiracies, and use me – and my reports from decades ago – as a theatre prop ByAmbrose Evans-Pritchard 6 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and the big noises of politics, capital and the state. In this case it wasn’t fearful warnings about ‘missing the European boat’, but other terrors – […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] experiments in the years running up to the flood.’ 2 Of Project Cumulus, or Operation Witch Doctor as it was nicknamed by Squadron Leader Len Otley, the BBC reported how the glider pilot Alan Yates sprayed chemicals over Bedfordshire, after which ‘Scientists told him it caused a heavy downpour in Staines, 50 miles (80 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the South Yorkshire Police and the Margaret Thatcher set followed by Murdoch, the ‘war on terror’ warriors and the Tony Blair set? The Birtists The demise of BBC director general, George Entwistle, was hastened by a lacklustre performance before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.7 He was accompanied there by David Jordan, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that is Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein, the commander of the Eighth Army during the Second World War. From 1931 to 1947 he was employed by the BBC in Northern Ireland in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). 7 See for example . 8 […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] broadcast pop music to UK audiences because it would boost sales in his record shops at a time when pop music received very little exposure on the BBC Light Programme. Crawford may have had other reasons for involvement in this venture. He was also, for instance, a business partner of Major Oliver Smedley. Smedley […]

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