Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[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.” […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[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 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 The crisis Robin Ramsay The doom loop W e are now into the ‘doom loop’ described last year by Bank of England officials Alessandri and Haldane in which the banks, having discovered that their respective host states do not have the courage to regulate them, say ‘Thanks for the bailout’ and carry […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[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 […]