Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] of social and economic liberalism, and they reproduce themselves across the generations, with the children moving seamlessly from (usually) private school to university, to political intern/private office/journalism/ BBC, to think tanks like Reform, Policy Exchange or the Centre for Policy Studies, or to polling organisations like YouGov, and thence to Parliament. If they want […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Spook joke department ‘UK spies will need artificial intelligence’ reads the headline to a Gordon Corera piece on BBC news online.1 Yes, the gags are pretty much writing themselves now. Deferred prosecution agreements – buying your way out of trouble ‘A deferred prosecution agreement, or […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] with the help of the joint intelligence committee . . . Due to be published last autumn it was blocked by No 10 as too negative’. The BBC discussed it on the 27th,6 so evidently Whitehall had ‘As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Meltdown UK, and, Crisis and Recovery

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] (Lobster 31 et seq). He is now director of the Global Policy Institute, a senior fellow of the Federal Trust and a prominent republican, opining recently on BBC Radio 4 on the forthcoming royal marriage. His latest book is a fulminating criticism of those elected to power in Britain while he was busy on […]

GArrick Timmi text

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

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 […]

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