PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] Iraq as part of Britain’s ‘hearts and minds’ campaign: a sort of movie equivalent to British troops losing 9 – 3 to the Basrah football squad. ( BBC report following the fall of Basrah.) 4 The Times 7 April 2003. 5 The Observer, 12 January 2003. This is a wholly different conflict, albeit ripe […]

Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] in St Helier, Jersey’s capital.’ 10 ‘Foreign Office officials are examining ways of using public and private funding to turn the BBC’s struggling international TV news channel, BBC World, into a global player. . . its existence would promote “good governance” and help raise Britain’s international profile’ – The Guardian 22 July 2002 11 […]

The Kincora Scandal

Book review
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

Chris Moore Marino Books, (an imprint of Mercier Press), 16 Hume St., Dublin 2, Ireland. £6.99 Chris Moore worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland during most of ‘the troubles’ and should have been ideally suited to write a decent account of Kincora and its surrounding scandals. Alas, this book is a complete turkey. […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] Debretts and Burkes Peerage, and many other books on intelligence during the war. ABRAMS, MARK ALEXANDER B 27.4.06 LSE, REFORM 1933 RESEARCH DEPT LONDON PRESS EXCHANGE 1939 BBC OVERSEAS DEPT 1941 POLITICAL WARFARE EXEC AND SHAEF 1946-70 MANAGING DIRECTOR RESEARCH SERVICES LTD 1964- CHAIRMAN (EXEC COMM) POLITICAL ECONOMIC PLANNING ACLAND, SIR ANTONY ARTHUR KCMG […]

Mind control etc

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

Someone pointed out to me that Lobster 42 ranged from Gladstone to UFOs, a spread probably unique today. But this range has a downside: things get picked up and then sidelined. One such area is the field bounded on one side by what is known as mind control and on the other by non-lethal technologies. […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] which began: ‘A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as […]

The meaning of the QinetiQ scandal

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] was the then chairman of the company, Pauline Neville-Jones, who, according to Greg Dyke, was one of the principal architects of his removal as director-General of the BBC over the ‘sexed-up dossier’ affair. The chairman of an arms firm is able to intervene in BBC reporting of a disastrous war from which her company […]

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984 Policing The Miners Up to May 30th. These are only brief references to the major elements. Magistrates setting restrictive bail conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for […]

Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] seen at Conservative Party Central Office); Tony Kerpel (last seen listed as a ‘consultant’ to the recent (AugustSeptember 1993) 3-part tv series by Kenneth Baker MP on BBC TV); and Edward Leigh (now an MP and junior Minister). Crozier also claims to have created the psy-ops outfits of the Coalition for Peace through Security […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

Dr. David Kelly The death of Dr David Kelly refuses to go away. Two groups of medical experts have expressed doubts about the suicide verdict. The International Toxicology Advisory Group have queried the conclusion that Kelly swallowed at least 20 co-proxamol tablets, which contributed to his death; (1) and a group of surgeons wrote to […]

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