The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] describe Lockerbie in her memoirs, had wanted a more doughty foe than Dr Swire she’d have been hard put to find one. A former Army officer and BBC television engineer who then retrained as a general practitioner, Flora’s father was just the kind of honourable, hard-working and patriotic figure Thatcher told us was the […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] was determined to clear my name and hoped for additional interest from journalists like David McKittrick. All was going well, with significant coverage, until McKittrick and a BBC journalist called John Ware wrote notorious articles on 2 September 1987 for the London Independent, containing proven falsehoods. They reinvigorated a smear, criticised by Duncan Campbell, […]

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 […]

GArrick Timmi text

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[…] that, on the preponderance of evidence, Olaf Neitsch’s father was indeed a Stasi officer, even though that Stasi officer might not have been Herbert Neitsch. 10 11 BBC News, 15 January 2017. See . An academic study has analysed the degree of nepotism in the Stasi’s Karl-Marx-Stadt district office, where the above-mentioned Herbert Neitsch […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

ATTACK WARNING RED! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] a localised radiation emergency in mind. There is no mention of a ‘wartime’ emergency. It’s as if the possibility of such an emergency no longer exists. The BBC reported that nuclear war is no longer on the UK’s ‘National Risk Register’6 – although the likelihood of a nuclear bomb being detonated by a terrorist […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail.39 Erstwhile token lefty on the BBC, Paul Mason has a similar reaction in his review of a film on this subject, a screening of which was planned for the Glastonbury festival but […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] , or to the other five boys’ homes, and the circumstances which led up to the problems.’ 5 Moreover, when asked on The World at One ( BBC Radio 4, 18 January 1984) if the Inquiry would take evidence on the alleged activities of the Intelligence agencies, he replied that if there was any […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] really should be called the Conspiracy Theories and Democracy Project, because it is conspiracy theories and their apparent impact on democracy which they are concerned about. The BBC report on the launch of the project was titled ‘Are conspiracy theories destroying democracy?’;5 and one of the project’s three directors, Sir Richard Evans, began a […]

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