Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[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 63 (Summer 2012)
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[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 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] the queen (sic) 71 72 73 This first appeared here: . 74 23 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 62 (Winter 2011)
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[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 […]