The Never Trumpers

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 […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Mark Lewis and ‘the ultimate hacker’

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 […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] home (Kincora), or to the other five boys’ homes, and the circumstances which led up to the problems.13 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, James Prior, Northern Ireland Secretary of State, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] bullshit basket he calls for some global action which he knows will never take place but which he thinks sounds impressive. His latest was reported on the BBC News website: he wants a ‘global fund for education’.6 No doubt this will be next on the list after the new global financial system he wants […]

View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] with the help of the joint intelligence committee . . . Due to be published last autumn it was blocked by No 10 as too negative’. The BBC discussed it on the 27th,6 so evidently Whitehall had ‘As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

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 […]

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