The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] complain to Ofcom about the way the media treat them. 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 […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] of the ‘Boris-haters’ who have done their best to use his character – i.e. his dishonesty, his irresponsibility, his unreliability, his selfishness – to discredit him. The BBC, the Guardian and Polly Toynbee are particularly guilty in this regard; but Matthew Parris and Max Hastings on the right get a mention as well. They […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail.26 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 […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund London: The Bodley Head, 2025, £25, h/b Colin Challen One of the earlier books seeking to answer the questions of who and what Keir Starmer is and represents was Oliver Eagleton’s The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right (Verso, 2022). […]

Her Majesty’s secret servants

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] economic commentator has named it. Dallas ‘63 W e are going to get a torrent of bullshit about the Kennedy assassination in the next couple of months. BBC Radio 4 contributed a piece called ‘The Reunion’ in which a group of people who were in Dallas in 1963 when it happened recalled the events. […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail. 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 […]

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 […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] NUM by the TUC, most individual member unions and the Labour Party. The Ridley Plan is Lauria’s second omission. *new* More JFK nonsense History Extra is a BBC website. In early February it put up Danny Bird’s ‘Who was behind JFK’s assassination? The real history that challenges the conspiracy’,6 as a come-on for a […]

The economic crisis continues

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] then about government borrowing;1 3 the trade deficit,1 4 and 10 Lewis was the author of the classic account of 1980s Wall St. rackets, Liar’s Poker. 11 BBC News on-line, 19 December, 2003, ‘IMF gives Brown borrowing warning’ 12 13 ‘Brown besieged over growth and borrowing plans’, The Times, 22 September 2005 14 20 […]

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