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 […]

What if…

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 […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] starting to tilt away from the West. There will be consequences for all of us over time – but how many people are aware of this? The BBC obsesses over political issues on the most superficial level, ‘feel-good stories’, and parochial trivia. What goes on elsewhere on the planet scarcely gets a mention, with […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] deleted, archive only). 31 Tretetsky was attacked on 16 March and died in hospital 10 days later. Segodnya, 28 March 2014. See (source in Russian). 32 33 BBC News, 26 April 2014. See . Ukrainian Pravda, 4 July 2014. See (source in Ukrainian). Kernes had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] deleted, archive only). 31 Tretetsky was attacked on 16 March and died in hospital 10 days later. Segodnya, 28 March 2014. See (source in Russian). 32 33 BBC News, 26 April 2014. See . Ukrainian Pravda, 4 July 2014. See (source in Ukrainian). Kernes had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] people in British politics. Commenting on Guilty Men, he rebuts a position that Oborne and Weaver do not hold: namely that there was a conspiracy within the BBC, and offers an insider’s view that is exactly that of the authors: ‘Oborne seems to imply that there was a covert plot within the top echelons […]

The Two Goulds

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 […]

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