Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] of the ‘Boris-haters’ who have done their best to use his character – i.e. his dishonesty, his irresponsibility, his unreliability, his selfishness – to discredit him. The BBC, the Guardian and Polly Toynbee are particularly guilty in this regard; but Matthew Parris and Max Hastings on the right get a mention as well. They […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe them Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks Philip M. Coupland London: Routledge, 2016, £30, p/b David Sivier This is a sympathetic study of Jorian Jenks, one of the great pioneers of the modern Green movement and advocate of organic agriculture.1 He was also […]

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[…] While in prison in 1991, Sanderson wrote: 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, […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] between the country as it actually is and as it is represented in Westminster.17 If Butler and McTeague are political commentators, Libby Purves is not. Times columnist, BBC presenter for many years, Purves is the personification of the middle-of-the-road, mainstream, apolitical (but conservative) journalist.18 But things are now so bad even Purves was moved […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] was prompted to look at it for the first time in a while by seeing the headline on Gosling’s latest email collection: ‘Wife-Killer Prince Charles Flexes Orwellian BBC Mind-Control Muscle, Eyes Global Great Reset & Peace Antichrist Roles’. Meanwhile, back on Dealey Plaza Researchers into the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate affair are currently […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] included General Abdul Rashid Dostum (now the Afghan Vice-President) who had a close working relationship with US SF Operational Detachment Alpha 595.18 The money that John Simpson’s BBC report shows are in the 10,000 Afghani denomination which would, at the time, have had an approximate value of $150 per banknote. A conservative estimate would […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] point, my eyes started to roll into the back of my head – and it was only chapter one! See . His ‘SAS: Rouge Heroes’ for the BBC also stretches credibility because it purports to show events from the Second World War and yet the incidental music features thrashing heavy metal, a genre not […]

Signs of the times

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the great credit boom of 1972/3, which triggered inflation, at . 8 9 See, for example, . or 10 Not to be confused with the host of BBC TV’s Masterchef. This Torode was a staffer at the Guardian. He left Labour, joined the Social Democratic Party and stood as an SDP candidate in the […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] 4 5 See ‘Otto Warmbier’s North Korea roommate speaks out’, Washington Post 15 June 2017 at or . Typical of this limited coverage is the one minute BBC interview with him which can be seen at . 6 See, for instance, Gerry Shih, ‘Gung-ho culture at tour agency Warmbier used on North Korea trip’ […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] a base in Crete ended in ignominious defeat on 1 June with 23,000 UK troops killed or captured and 12 ships sunk.) See above footnote 49. The BBC History Magazine May 2001 (cited in Padfield) quotes a Margaret Baird, wife of the farmer who owned the land where Hess crashed: ‘the police was ordered […]

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