Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[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, […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] in the world, down 10 points from April 2019’. Meanwhile, 41% said ‘the UK should ‘US election 2020: The other 1,214 candidates running for president’ from the BBC News website at . 13 See the financial details for the ‘Kanye 2020 Committee’ on the Federal Election Commission website at . 14 See, e.g., ‘Talked […]

Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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 […]

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

[…] 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 […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue

[…] Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy Matthew Alford London: Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay O n 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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[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 […]

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