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 […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘a form of protest’. (p. 171) She had no alternative. ‘One of the things I love about the president’ A Year at the Circus Jon Sopel London: BBC Books, 2019 A Year at the Circus is the second in a threatened trilogy of books about the Trump Presidency, written by the BBC’s Jon ‘Soft’ […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Growth Fund and the Business bank.’ Dallas ‘63 We are going to get a torrent of bullshit about the Kennedy assassination in the next couple of months. BBC Radio 4 contributed a piece called ‘The Reunion’ in which a group of people who were in Dallas in 1963 when it happened recalled the events. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Journal version was ‘Covid-19: Local health teams trace eight times more contacts than national service’ at . 25 or 26 Forget the Palestinians On 13 August the BBC News carried the story of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations.27 There was much related talk about how good […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] CIA. On the SDP and its American connections see Tom Easton, ‘Who were they travelling with?’ in Lobster 31. 15 Dom’s the word So I watched the BBC profile of Dominic Cummings, which boiled down to this: Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] CIA. On the SDP and its American connections see Tom Easton, ‘Who were they travelling with?’ in Lobster 31. 15 Dom’s the word So I watched the BBC profile of Dominic Cummings, which boiled down to this: Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] associate at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology). They link the Savile Scandal – ‘the most prominent chapter in recent UK cultural history, in which the former BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile is alleged to have sexually abused hundreds of children over the past fifty years’ – with the satanic ritual abuse scandal ‘which swept […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] embassy-Levy link was not mentioned by Jon Sopel, the Jewish early biographer of Blair16 who went on to become the BBC’s North America editor before joining former BBC Newsnight presenter Emma Maitlis at LBC’s show The News Agents. One of the other Jewish journalism figures holding what Burg called ‘stunningly powerful positions and clout’ […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

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[…] embassy-Levy link was not mentioned by Jon Sopel, the Jewish early biographer of Blair16 who went on to become the BBC’s North America editor before joining former BBC Newsnight presenter Emma Maitlis at LBC’s show The News Agents. One of the other Jewish journalism figures holding what Burg called ‘stunningly powerful positions and clout’ […]

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