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 […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to incinerate every last surviving particle of nerve agent. The best approach for Mr. Hambling, as for Mr. Hollick , is to approach Tim Sebastian, the former BBC Correspondent who investigated Black Cat, and to also speak with the Countess of Mar. Tim Sebastian confirmed to me in a telephone call that he had […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] hard to think of anyone with a better motive or a stronger track record in Cold War and ‘war on terror’ disinformation. Wolfowitz, New Labour and the BBC On June 10 1997, shortly after New Labour was elected, Paul Wolfowitz was special guest at a party thrown by the British Ambassador in Washington, Sir […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] of the inability of Labour and Democratic politicians to look reality in the face. Tunes and pipers Phil Chamberlain alerted me the reference in the blog of BBC Chief Political Correspondent Nick Robinson to Gordon Brown reading Frances Stonor Saunders’ Who Paid The Piper?, her long account of the CIA’s ‘cultural war’ in the […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] them up the Anglo-Americans assembled an ‘invasion fleet’ on the English east coast and launched 3215 fighter and bomber sorties against ‘invasion targets’.(3) On 17 August the BBC announced ‘the liberation of occupied countries has begun’. But the Germans did not believe any of it. Indeed they actually moved some divisions out of France […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] country’s most expensive PR firms.’ (The Journalist, November 2007). Declaration of Interests: I am a supporter of the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom which supports the BBC. See Independent on Sunday, 16 September 2007 See admission by former SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove of sympathy with what he called ‘initial use’ of rendition […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] of the bug was for fear that Stalker might discover that MI5 had also bugged the car in which McTerr, Toman and Burns were killed. According to BBC reporter Chris Moore, ‘the security forces involved in the covert surveillance operation were able to listen to the conversation going on in the car.’ (21) An […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Tony Blair will be remembered not just for the slaughter in Iraq, and the subsequent collapse of Labour in Scotland in face of a resurgent SNP, but as the Labour leader who could have forged common links across Europe but chose to side with one of the continent’s most despised figures. Charles Clarke, one of […]