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[…] almost entirely ignored by the major media outside Ireland.4 *new* One inch to the east Steve Rosenberg’s ‘Our Man in Moscow’, about his life there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Park. 22 As good a point to start for anyone who might want to read more about ‘Numbers Stations’ would be and the YouTube upload of a BBC Radio 4 programme at . 23 An official, and very dry account is at the Intelligence Corps Museum website at A more entertaining read can be […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] bullshit basket he calls for some global action which he knows will never take place but which he thinks sounds impressive. His latest was reported on the BBC News website: he wants a ‘global fund for education’.6 No doubt this will be next on the list after the new global financial system he wants […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] Together came from the Israel lobby in the UK. I wonder why. Not a million miles from which . . . as far as I can see BBC News, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and The Times have not reported the arrest of Richard Medhurst and Sara Wilkinson under anti–terrorism legislation for their reporting […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] the Gaza Strip, UM Commission finds’, 16 September 2025, . See also Jeremy Bowen, ‘UN commission report on genocide is blunt indictment of Israel’s actions in Gaza’, BBC News 16 September 2025, . 7 ‘IPSOS poll on British attitudes towards the conflict in Israel and Gaza’, 15 September 2025, 8 9 See for example […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] – no evidence could be found that Smith had ever been arrested with a car boot full of sex magazines. After Danczuk first outed Smith (in 2012), BBC Newsnight ran a lengthy piece on the case. Careful scrutiny indicated that those making claims against Smith seemed to be alleging physical mistreatment (being knocked around, […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] inserted into the PLO and then smuggled into Germany to wreck a Palestinian bombing campaign was filmed by Hollywood in 1983 and again for television by the BBC in 2018.7 Imitating The Little Drummer Girl, within months of its publication, by infiltrating a transgender Manchester-born woman into a real PLO splinter group, appears so […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] Together came from the Israel lobby in the UK. I wonder why. Not a million miles from which . . . as far as I can see BBC News, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and The Times have not reported the arrest of Richard Medhurst and Sara Wilkinson under anti–terrorism legislation for their reporting […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: Murdoch: wounded but not dead Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power David McKnight Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2012 W hat has been Rupert Murdoch’s response to ‘Hackgate’? He has made clear his willingness to throw overboard as many people, reporters and executives, as are necessary in order to protect his son, James. He has […]

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