The view from the bridge

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Hille, working on a TV documentary entitled The Appalling Truth, took the file abroad for safety. New research There were many setbacks. The late Roy McHardy of BBC Scotland found a Scottish doctor who had been asked by Churchill to check again for First World War bullet wound scars on the chest of the […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] basis: it supported the Iraq war that Corbyn strongly opposed.35 Both books also offer little detail on the contribution of the broadcasting media to the ‘crisis’. The BBC was consistently critical of Corbyn. One of the worst examples was the 2019 BBC TV Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Antisemitic?’. It opened with an unidentified former […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] contracts with private UK security companies rose from £12.6m in 2003 to £48.9m in 2012, according to official figures.’9 One of the memorable jokes from the 1980s BBC comedy ‘Yes Minister’ is along the lines of, ‘If those are the official figures, then you can imagine just how much it really is!’ British dominance […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] army raid on the Golden Temple ended in disaster’ at . Those who have heard any of the general news reports filed by Mark Tully, on either BBC Radio 4 or the World service, will know that he is a measured and peaceful man. In his Telegraph piece, however, one can feel the huge […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] power – and its equally complex internal politics – are boiled down to a dumb story about sex and satanism. Forget the Palestinians On 13 August the BBC News carried the story of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations.27 There was much related talk about how good […]

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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