Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[PDF file]: […] a one-sided struggle. The ‘yes’ campaign had unlimited funding, the support of the City of London, the large British companies, the British state, its broadcasting apparatus (the BBC) and almost all the rest of the media, as well as covert assistance from the CIA and IRD. The ‘no’ campaign was out-spent ten or fifteen […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a base in Crete ended in ignominious defeat on 1 June with 23,000 UK troops killed or captured and 12 ships sunk.) See above footnote 49. The BBC History Magazine May 2001 (cited in Padfield) quotes a Margaret Baird, wife of the farmer who owned the land where Hess crashed: ‘the police was ordered […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] and Jonathan Powell, who had the final editing rights on the notorious ‘dodgy dossier’. Hence the great row about ‘sexing-up’ which led to the upheaval at the BBC and the big fight with the government – a fight in which, as Lord Hutton showed us, the claim that the estimates had been ‘sexed-up’ was […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] 4 5 See ‘Otto Warmbier’s North Korea roommate speaks out’, Washington Post 15 June 2017 at or . Typical of this limited coverage is the one minute BBC interview with him which can be seen at . 6 See, for instance, Gerry Shih, ‘Gung-ho culture at tour agency Warmbier used on North Korea trip’ […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] was a Tunisian, Abdallah Melaouhi. He cared for the prisoner until 1987 when the prisoner was found dead in a summerhouse. Melaouhi believed his patient was murdered: BBC Newsnight 28 February 1989. 11 feet with Essaven ointment . Take a blood sample in order to assess the serum level achieved by Prisoner No. 7’s […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] provision – hardly unique to Sweden) gets a couple of pages before being smartly knocked to one side on the basis of a single statement made by BBC journalist Evan Davis: ‘Personally, I suspect that most of us would not be willing to pay a very high price for universal provision.’ Whether or not […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[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 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] and super rich. Our own Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, used to work as an analyst for Goldman Sachs, as did the new Chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp – for 23 years no less – where he was Sunak’s boss. Sharp was also an adviser to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] pages trying to portray this as something sinister. But the problem with all attempts to make something of this is that Power was a volunteer; he rang BBC Radio 5 Live on the afternoon of 7/7 to report this creepy coincidence. I was listening at the time. The author is offering a ‘hidden hand’ […]