Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy Matthew Alford London: Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay On the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here’s Melanie Phillips: ‘With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] about the falsification of intelligence relating to Iraqi WMD, but whose death ended up being used instead as a vehicle for the Blair government to attack the BBC, who had reported the leak. Among the documents posted on the inquiry’s website was a bizarre and cryptic document concerning child abuse, the presence of which […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] not win the general election of 1979. Michael Morton contacted me to let me know such speculation had already been done by Andrew Marr in 1993 on BBC television; and that the scenarios discussed by Marr and various interviewees had originally been published in his magazine Alternate Worlds in January 1995.2 Very kindly, Michael […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] . 15 See or . 16 17 Listed at . 18 6 Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of BBC staff.19 I have no idea, I replied. The story on the BBC News website is worth reading – if only for the strong whiff of ‘the […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS Gavin Mortimer London: Constable, 2022, £25, h/b John Newsinger On Sunday 30 October, the BBC broadcast the first episode of its much trumpeted drama series, SAS Rogue Heroes, with a screenplay by Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame. The six part […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] at the precise stations where they did in fact go off, leading some participants in the exercise to be initially impressed that the drill extended to live BBC broadcasts of their ‘fictional’ disaster. (Although much has been made of this incident, it should be remembered that it was a ‘paper drill’, i.e. a crisis […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] domestic manufacturing economy. Neil Kinnock, party leader after 1983, chose as his economic advisor the Cambridge economist John Eatwell. In 1982 Eatwell had written and fronted a BBC TV series, ‘Whatever happened to Britain?’3 This was in the tradition of analyses, going back to the 1950s, bemoaning Britain’s relative economic decline; but it was […]
