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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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’ […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: Gone but not forgotten . . . UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others Jon Sopel BBC Books, 2021, £20.00, h/b The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism, and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus, And Why aren’t We Done With Him Yet? S V Date […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of anti-semitism through the world’s institutions, see the essay by Alison Weir.18 * new * All our yesterdays A reader asked me if I knew why the BBC had allowed a former employee, Paul Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of Lynn Parramore, ‘Noam Chomsky on […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] has reached issue 167.47 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.48 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] has reached issue 167.37 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.38 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a cover for the CIA. (Never mind the rumours that World Vision itself provides cover for the CIA.) The Cambridge phone call redux Anthony Frewin reports: The BBC News website carried a story on 4 December 2017 that the BBC had made a Freedom of Information request to the Cambridge Police asking them to […]

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