ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] 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 […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[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 […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue free article

[PDF file]: […] said once Jim and I returned to London, I would need to ‘settle my account’ before I received the money. MI6 expected me to sit in a BBC news television studio and claim The Cook Report story was a hoax. It would be worldwide breaking news. I could see it now. Exposing The Cook […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of 40 years! The shitshow continues Regular perusers of this column may recall my item from Lobster 78 on facial recognition.17 The 6th August report on the BBC news website that ‘Facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man’18 informs us that the shitshow continues. Presumably, we are supposed to be comforted by the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. […]

Lob86ViewfromBridgepdf

Lobster Issue

[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail.26 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 […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The dot.com boom went smash in the early part of 2000. Absurd valuations collapsed, and a string of (briefly) famous names disappeared: boo.com, clickmango and others. Wrote BBC business reporter Jorn Madslien on March 9 2010: ‘How we all laugh as we look back at a time when the talk was more important than […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* Stolen, not shared ‘MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes’ was a headline from BBC News online in late April.1 The head of the Security Service, Ken McCallum,2 was quoted from a piece he had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We must […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail. 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 […]

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