Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[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’ […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

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[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE
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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 […]

Hess DNA: Round 15

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[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 […]

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