Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] devoted eight pages to him, and said he had been suffering from diabetes, heart trouble and pneumonia. Ceefax, on the other hand, the service broadcast by the BBC, devoted only one page, and announced he had been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. MI5 still in the building by any chance, Mr Birt? Who killed WPC […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] insurgents, and the relocation of whole communities. The area of the British state’s social control assets where colonial methods have been introduced wholesale is policing. As the BBC TV programme “Brass Tacks” on the police assaults on the miners at Orgreave and the students at Manchester University showed, the British police have now adopted […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] politic forces would emerge on top once Saddam was removed.’ In ‘Blair was warned of looming disaster in Iraq’, in The Daily Telegraph, John Ware trailed his BBC TV programmes on the subject and his opening sentence included this: ‘the former prime minister was told repeatedly about America’s lack of planning for peace and […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Committee? Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war dispute with the BBC, was one of the world’s leading experts on biological warfare? Did you know that this Downing Street spokesman was promptly promoted? Did you know that at […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[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 – […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[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, […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. *new* ‘Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported the US invasion of Iraq. Twenty years and at least half million dead […]