Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] people in British politics. Commenting on Guilty Men, he rebuts a position that Oborne and Weaver do not hold: namely that there was a conspiracy within the BBC, and offers an insider’s view that is exactly that of the authors: ‘Oborne seems to imply that there was a covert plot within the top echelons […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] N evertheless and in spite of ongoing reputational damage, SIS continues to run an adept stand-alone PR campaign. Doubtless coincidentally, it was bookended this year by two BBC radio programmes: Tom Mangold’s Ship of Spies broadcast on the BBC World Service in February 2011 and Andrew Marr’s Start the week discussion with Gordon Corera, […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] workers and the lower middle-class of big cities’ is now overtaking support from the old industrial working-class. See Mason, ‘After Corbynism: Where next for Labour?’ . 7 BBC Reality Check Team, ‘How Many Labour Supporters Voted Leave?’ BBC News, 29 April 2019, . 8 (where public spending accounts for 56 per cent of the […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] See . 29 30 12 Iraq invasion: tenth anniversary Monday 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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] time) and Albania. He was, apparently, the model for the traitor Bill Haydon in John Le Carre’s 1974 novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Publicity for a two-part BBC 2 documentary about Philby broadcast in April 2014 (based on Ben Macintyre’s A Spy Among Friends)3 described him as ‘a fanatic and a ruthless killer who […]