The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to speak to negotiators.’ (p. 164) ‘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.” […]

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[…] 2014 launched a military attack against those two provinces in the Donbass region. or 19 20 21 6 In support of that proposition, he cites a 2014 BBC News report which begins: Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov has announced the start of an “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists. But the BBC piece also reported: […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] consistency but the emerging motive is transparent. In a typed and lengthy letter dated 3 January 1973, Mr Westlake wrote concerning Mr Sargeant’s analysis of the above-mentioned BBC film of the crash: ‘George Carley and I have now had time to digest your analysis and as your draft now stands there is liable to […]

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[…] unconstitutional government on April 16, 2014 launched a military attack against those two provinces in the Donbass region. In support of that proposition, he cites a 2014 BBC News report which begins: Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov has announced the start of an “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists. But the BBC piece also reported: […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Also arrested, according to bulletins – both western and middle-eastern – was ‘the husband of Austria’s cultural attaché in Iran’ and a Polish scientist, Maciej Walczak. Whilst BBC news stated that ‘Poland confirms scientist being detained in Iran’21 there was what seemed to be a blanket denial from elsewhere, because ‘The UK and Austria […]

Tittle Tattle

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Gould’s old sidekick in the ‘modernisation’ of Labour. Hill’s partner is Hilary Coffman, who previously worked for Kinnock and Michael Foot. BAP and the BEEB Hill’s sister, BBC chief editorial adviser Margaret, is a longstanding member of the British American Project (Lobsters passim) whose members now seem to fill more and more of the […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Freedland.2 9 The paper describes him as ‘its executive editor, Opinion, overseeing Comment is Free, editorials and long reads’3 0 and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, the Jewish Chronicle and The New York Review of Books. At the height of the Charlie Hebdo events in January Freedland wrote in his […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] found out what was going to happen and objected he just dosed them up so they didn’t know whether they were coming or going. In April 2009 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a documentary by James Maw entitled Revealing the Mind Bender General. Maw interviewed several of Sargant’s patients who spoke of their lives being […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for The Guardian and in 2012 published Britain for Sale: British Companies in Foreign Hands – The Hidden Threat to Our Economy. Brummer was interviewed by the BBC about it. See . 65 or 66 23 long-disproved liberal assumptions – that our values are universal, that the rest of the world wants to become […]

[PDF file]: […] for The Guardian and in 2012 published Britain for Sale: British Companies in Foreign Hands – The Hidden Threat to Our Economy. Brummer was interviewed by the BBC about it. See . 37 12 Will Hutton in The Observer: We are so badly governed by ministers and a party living in a sealed right-wing […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Matthews’ piece in the previous issue, ‘A tale of two Islingtons’,57 mentions Gerry Reynolds as being one of Jeremy Corbyn’s predecessors as MP for that constituency. A BBC news report on the Information Research Department (IRD) and the transfer of thousands of its files to the National Archives mentions that Gerry Reynolds had contacted […]

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