Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] B. S. A. Tahir, Griffin was named as a middleman for a project to create a machine shop in Libya. Griffin subsequently won libel cases against the BBC (26) and The Guardian27 for alleging that he had been knowingly involved in assisting the Libyan regime in developing its nuclear programme. He claimed complete ignorance […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan’s IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. But his old Guardian colleague, Jim […]

Changing the guard: Notes on the Round Table network and its offspring

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Guy Barnett, Robert Jackson, Robert Rhodes-James, and Cabinet Minister Timothy Raison. Other well-known names about London’s elite circles involved are D.C. Watt and Alexander McCloud of the BBC. I don’t know what the significance of this is yet: I haven’t seen a copy. But Jackson, both a Euro MP as well as the Westminster […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] thousand years later people still understand them to reflect reality. Gilligan would probably not want to be seen as a latter-day biblical evangelist but he (and the BBC) suffered mainly because of what philosophers might call a category error. Academics and lawyers (including but not only Tony Blair and Lord Hutton) examined what he […]

Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] BBC1 and BBC2 showed on their main evening news bulletins a rather lengthy piece concerning America’s latest development in weaponry — the non-lethal weapons concept. David Shukman, BBC Defence Correspondent, interviewed (Retired) U.S. Army Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept. (1) The concept of non-lethal […]

Book reviews

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] thankfully things have changed and we have recently seen a growing list of books well worth buying. Here’s another one. Liz Curtis’ account of British misinformation and BBC Censorship tactics on Ireland deserves close attention. Well documented, with excellent notation and index, there can be no argument with its contents. As Kincoragate shows, the […]

Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] of détente, he was a politician who gave early encouragement to Perle, Ledeen, Frank Gaffney (a member of the Reagan administration and since much used by the BBC), Carl Gershman (see below) and a whole swathe of politicos and propagandists later to be known as Neoconservatives. Travelling from Britain with Chalfont were Brian Crozier, […]

Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] March 1999 http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/dti99.htm http://www.epic.org/ This document is no longer on the Labour website, but can be found in the ‘resource list’ at http://www.liberty.org.uk/cacib/ http://www.dti.gov.uk/CII/ana27p.html Computing, January 1999 BBC News February 20 1998: ‘UK Govt dithers on encryption regulation’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/encryption/newsid _58000/58499.stm Para 84, Interception Capabilities 2000, April 1999, working document of the STOA panel of […]

Weird/not weird

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] < http://slink.com.com/slink?212215 > There is much more on this at < www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega2002.htm > 3 There is a selection of stories about masts in the UK on the BBC web site at < http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=newsifs&tab= news&q=mobile+masts&x=13&y=8 > 4 Charles, Loomis, Shyl et al, ‘Electromagnetic Fields, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and Prostate Cancer Mortality in Electric Utility Workers’ American […]

Conservative Radicalism: a Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] climaxed with the ‘Maggie’s Militants’ edition of the BBC’s flagship documentary programme, Panorama, in 1984, based on Searchlight’s research, which led to successful legal action against the BBC. As it turned out, the significant infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s ‘bridge’ between the Tory right and the […]

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