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 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] (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 […]

Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] part of the St James’s Palace Group. A less direct connection is through Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, who married the grandson of Sigmund Freud, Matthew in 2001. ( BBC 2001) Matthew Freud is the multimillionaire owner of PR company Freud Communications (Harris 2008) and, aside from being Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law, British Sky Broadcasting is one […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Rahman had admitted in prison he would have carried out the attack had he been able to.’17 (emphasis added ) Let us examine Rahman’s connections and abilities. BBC news reported18 how the ‘plot’ was ‘foiled’ by the security services and stated: ‘Last summer Rahman was homeless in London after falling out with both his […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] following four weeks but it was extensive: touring marginal seats in a converted double decker bus and distributing a million leaflets urging young 5 Philip Hayton became BBC correspondent in Washington DC, moved from there to cover South Africa and Rhodesia in the ‘70s and later turned up as BBC correspondent in Tehran during […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the EU. This has happened alongside a coarsening and collapse of most of the UK media into a kind of right-wing mud-wrestling pit, into which even the BBC eventually tumbled with their ludicrous, and wholly disproportionate, ideas about ‘balance’.6 Stephens doesn’t really say very much about the context within which the decisions of the […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] to Bloody Sunday, in as much as the British state’s colonial psy-ops techniques, introduced into Northern Ireland after the shootings helped provoke a kind of insurgency, the BBC broadcast on 22 March a radio documentary, ‘The spin war in Northern Ireland’ about the British state’s psychological operations in Northern Ireland. This may still be […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] buy larger homes.’ Iraq invasion: tenth anniversary 30 M onday 18 March was quite a day for those of us against the invasion of Iraq. On the BBC News Website, Peter Taylor conveyed the central gist of his programme later that night on Panorama about the intelligence failures which led the leadership of the […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] to cut to describing an afternoon tea in Devon, taken by Peter Gillman and his wife Leni11 as guests of Celia Adams, widow of Michael Adams, a BBC and Guardian Middle East correspondent. Adams had been detained in Egypt with David Holden during the 1956 Suez Crisis. They were friends in Beirut later. Celia […]

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