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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]