Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] , or to the other five boys’ homes, and the circumstances which led up to the problems.’ 5 Moreover, when asked on The World at One ( BBC Radio 4, 18 January 1984) if the Inquiry would take evidence on the alleged activities of the Intelligence agencies, he replied that if there was any […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] really should be called the Conspiracy Theories and Democracy Project, because it is conspiracy theories and their apparent impact on democracy which they are concerned about. The BBC report on the launch of the project was titled ‘Are conspiracy theories destroying democracy?’;5 and one of the project’s three directors, Sir Richard Evans, began a […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Meeja news Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the German conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, did an interview with Russia Today1 in 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 […]

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[…] This would have been a fairly routine development in other politically-sensitive cases. Avakov kept the case 33 Avakov confers with SBU chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko (Credit: Vadim Chuprina) BBC News, 26 April 2014. See . Ukrainian Pravda, 4 July 2014. See (source in Ukrainian). Kernes had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the influence of American Neoconservatives and Zionists in 9/11 events. There is everything from the dancing Israelis working as spies for Urban Moving Systems to the prompt BBC framing of events by former Israel Prime Minister and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Ehud Barak.17 We can learn more about Sandy Berger, President Clinton’s national security […]

Meltdown UK, and, Crisis and Recovery

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[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 […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[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 […]

Cummings, Greensill and all that

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: Cummings, Greensill and all that Robin Ramsay I watched the Dominic Cummings interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on the same day that the first report on the Lex Greensill affair became available on-line. Greensill was the fringe banker who hired former PM David Cameron – at around £29,000 a day – as a ‘consultant’.1 […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] employed more than 30% of the work force, half had recorded a rise in unemployment in the previous six months.8 As I was writing this paragraph the BBC news announced at the beginning of August 2001, that the manufacturing sector of the British economy was officially in recession – in large part the victim […]

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