Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] heavy with Israel apologists, Standpoint is part of the Social Affairs Unit, itself an offshoot of the Institute for Economic Affairs. Bob’s chums The row over a BBC World Service item on Sir Bob Geldof and what allegedly happened to some of the money he raised at the time of the Ethiopia famine 25 […]
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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] US plans for military aggression 29 ‘Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The US Tilts Toward Iraq, 1980-1984’, National Security Archive, Washington, 25 February 2003, at . 30 BBC, On This Day, ‘US Warship Shoots Down Iranian Airliner’, July 3, 1988. 31 BBC, On This Day, ‘Thousands Die in Gas Attack’, 16 March 1988. Speaking […]
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 […]