Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the great credit boom of 1972/3, which triggered inflation, at . 8 9 See, for example, . or 10 Not to be confused with the host of BBC TV’s Masterchef. This Torode was a staffer at the Guardian. He left Labour, joined the Social Democratic Party and stood as an SDP candidate in the […]
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 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] fine imposed and the expenses incurred by the Telegraph dealing with the court case. Harebrained? ‘Page 8’ was a film written and directed by David Hare on BBC 2 on 28 August 2011, in which Bill Nighy played a suave, sophisticated senior MI5 officer who saves the Service from being being destroyed in a […]
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]: […] 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]: […] 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 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] then about government borrowing;1 3 the trade deficit,1 4 and 10 Lewis was the author of the classic account of 1980s Wall St. rackets, Liar’s Poker. 11 BBC News on-line, 19 December, 2003, ‘IMF gives Brown borrowing warning’ 12 13 ‘Brown besieged over growth and borrowing plans’, The Times, 22 September 2005 14 20 […]
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 […]