Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that […]
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 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 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 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Meeja news Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the German conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, did an interview with Russia Today 1in which, among other things, he said this. ‘Germany is still a kind of a colony of the United States, you’ll see that in many points; like for example, the majority of […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in the […]