Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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 Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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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, […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] scene for international economic justice and environmental protection. 7 8 9 Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine, p. 231 See . But I have never seen him on (for example) BBC or Channel 4 (this does not of course mean he has never been interviewed there but it does suggest that any appearances have been somewhat limited). […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: Cummings, Greensill and all that Robin Ramsay I watched the Dominic Cummings interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on the same day that the first report on the Lex Greensill affair became available on-line. Greensill was the fringe banker who hired former PM David Cameron – at around £29,000 a day – as a ‘consultant’.1 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] employed more than 30% of the work force, half had recorded a rise in unemployment in the previous six months.8 As I was writing this paragraph the BBC news announced at the beginning of August 2001, that the manufacturing sector of the British economy was officially in recession – in large part the victim […]