The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] . 23 24 See . To no-one’s surprise this tweak now classifies as ‘fake news’ a great of left-wing writing. See, for example, . 25 7 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Beyond Business by John Browne

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] from the Enron debacle’.4 Jeffrey Skilling, the president of Enron, currently serving a 24 year jail sentence, is a former McKinsey partner. McKinsey advised Railtrack and the BBC on how to cut costs.5 After he left the BBC, Lord Birt (another Baron!) went to work for them. Another McKinsey man was Adair Turner (yet […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] 1949, worth over £1,800,000.49 In the first six months of 1949 Aims claims to have had 41 radio broadcasts on the Home or Light programmes of the BBC; and just before the election of 1950 in January, 362 magazines and newspapers gave 11,269 column inches to Aims-inspired stories. Aims magazine, The Voice of Industry, […]

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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