Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] 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’. Yesterday’s men Two of yesterday’s men, Conservative MPs Philip Hammond, former Chancellor the Exchequer, and Alan […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] The role of Fox News in enabling Trump is particularly relevant in Britain today as it seems almost certain that the Johnson-Cummings government intends to defund the BBC if it can get away with it and to bring in Fox News-style TV. This will certainly be necessary if they are to succeed with the […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] hapless politician who is effortlessly outmanoeuvred by self-serving senior officials. They were co-written by Sir Anthony Jay, a right-wing polemicist, whose production company also produced the 1979 BBC series Free to Choose in which Peter Jay (his cousin) sympathetically interviewed Milton Friedman about his monetarist views. There is a clear undertow of cynicism and […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] prove this. Allan Frankovich produced a film (On Company Business, 1980) largely based on the information Agee and Stockwell provided. He also produced a film for the BBC about the CIA ‘stay-behind’ fascist networks in Europe, Gladio (1992). In 1997 Frankovich died of a heart attack while clearing US Customs at Houston’s George Bush […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] escape to Spain after the torture and murder of a cannabis farmer in Cheshire. His son, also known as Christopher Guest More, had been working for the BBC as a fixer and investigator on a programme called Crooked Britain. He is still wanted by the Serious Organised Crimes Agency and his picture, taken on […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: […] Way (Blackwell, Oxford, 1986). 25 Bryan Gould, Goodbye To All That, (Macmillan, London, 1995) p. 202. 26 Gould p. 205. Eatwell is now Lord Eatwell. 27 Duckworth/ BBC, 1982 28 See note 24 above. 9 The day before the document was due to go to the printer, Gould was asked to meet a delegation […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] ‘investigated’. She’s now in the Lords, too. As is former Truro Lib Dem MP Matthew Taylor. Retiring from the Commons at the general election he told the BBC on 10 April that Parliament was ‘spectacularly unsuccessful. I 2 89 Summer 2010 won’t miss it at all’. Lest we forget (1) The revealing Channel 4 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[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 […]