[PDF file]: […] Reuter correspondent in the Middle East I spent six months in Aden in 1966 and in 1967 reported the ArabIsraeli war. 2. In 1969, I left the BBC External Services to take a job as a specialist writer in the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up […]
[PDF file]: […] 1974. However, 1976 saw Harold Wilson’s resignation but the advancement to PM of James Callaghan – who immediately lost Labour’s tiny majority in the Commons. See ‘ BBC on this day: 5th April, 1976’ at . 2 1 deficit and a pound that was in danger of falling too far against the dollar.3 The […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 1974. However, 1976 saw Harold Wilson’s resignation but the advancement to PM of James Callaghan – who immediately lost Labour’s tiny majority in the Commons. See ‘ BBC on this day: 5th April, 1976’ at . 2 1 deficit and a pound that was in danger of falling too far against the dollar.3 The […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 The crisis Robin Ramsay The doom loop W e are now into the ‘doom loop’ described last year by Bank of England officials Alessandri and Haldane in which the banks, having discovered that their respective host states do not have the courage to regulate them, say ‘Thanks for the bailout’ and carry […]
