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 […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[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)
[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)
[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 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] becoming aware of Kerr’s intentions to dismiss the government – the queen (sic) would delay responding, thereby stalling Whitlam. It will be interesting to see if the BBC news returns to this subject now it has been revived. They ran a slightly softer version of the story 2020 when the book was first published.75 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[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 […]