Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] this out last year, it Scott Newton, ‘The Conservatives and Europe: the long view’, History and Policy Opinion Paper, January 2013, or . 14 Matt Drake, ‘ BBC Newsnight: Lord Heseltine “in favour” of voting for “horrific” Corbyn to STOP (sic) Brexit’, Daily Express, 10 November 2017. 15 still involves a very significant U-turn. […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] and Jonathan Powell, who had the final editing rights on the notorious ‘dodgy dossier’. Hence the great row about ‘sexing-up’ which led to the upheaval at the BBC and the big fight with the government – a fight in which, as Lord Hutton showed us, the claim that the estimates had been ‘sexed-up’ was […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] fine imposed and the expenses incurred by the Telegraph dealing with the court case. Harebrained? ‘Page 8’ was a film written and directed by David Hare on BBC 2 on 28 August 2011, in which Bill Nighy played a suave, sophisticated senior MI5 officer who saves the Service from being being destroyed in a […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words I’d heard on the BBC were there. But so was her description of how as a 21-year-old Oxford student the then Shirley Catlin was funded by the US government to take […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[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’ […]