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, […]

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 […]

Garrick part one trial

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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] having made the original charge, Wilson then provided no more public information.2 In private, however, Wilson had provided a little more information to a pair of freelance BBC journalists, Barry Penrose and Roger Courtier, and set them going in search of the MI5 and South African connections3 In the event, Penrose and Courtier (who […]

GArrick part one trial

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 […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] public attention in any serious way. Our handling of it has been designed to discourage further fruitless argument.’6 Mrs Chalker spoke too soon. On 28 February 1989, BBC Newsnight screened a 30-minute TV report in which both Professor Spann and the prison nurse Abdallah Melaouhi told the reporter Olenka Frenkiel that they suspected the […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, fatuously headlined ‘The Ukrainian TV show that predicted the future’. or . 2 1 
 Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of […]

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