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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] wrote in 1926) that ‘many big undertakings’ (notably public utilities) ‘need to be semisocialised’,5 in the form of semi-autonomous public corporations. But in organizations such as the BBC, the Bank of England, the Port of London Authority, ‘the big utility enterprise’ and ‘big insurance’ firms, and even the railway companies, Keynes identified a tendency […]

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 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 […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] for avant-garde jazz. Like many other post-war dissidents, it was Radio Luxembourg which pointed the way to an exciting new world beyond the cosy confines of the BBC. “In the late fifties you had the BBC Light Programme or the Home Service, and then there was this decadent stuff swimming through the ether from […]

View from

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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 British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the miners’ strike and then funding various I discussed this in my ‘The View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 51. The source of the story was the BBC documentary ‘The plot against Harold Wilson’ which is on-line at . 10 In 1980 General Sir Walter Walker published his account of the global Soviet threat, […]

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