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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] has reached issue 167.37 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.38 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and what their leader was thinking. ‘Even during the election, Clegg had been moving on the issue – but without telling the electorate. He later told the BBC that he had changed his view during the general election: “Remember between March and the actual general election, a financial earthquake occurred on our European doorstep.” […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] has reached issue 167.37 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.38 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, […]

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