Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more
[…] Robertson of Port Ellen. Beams and motes A splendid riposte was handed to Robertson’s old chum, Denis MacShane, in the letters column of The Guardian. The former BBC reporter turned international trade union official and then Foreign Office minister, had taken issue with former Washington ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer. He claimed the man who […]
[…] book is the large number of people interviewed by him who are careful not to be named when making comments about his subject. Andrew Hosken is a BBC TV journalist who became quite well known in the 1990s covering London local government. At that time he seemed to be working closely with associates of […]
[…] of staff, Jonathan Powell. Both are close to an earlier editor of The Independent who is also strongly pro-Euro: Andrew Marr is now political editor of the BBC. Mandelson has long been a leading figure in the European Movement, but its fortunes seem to be as popular as those of Leo Gillen, the businessman […]
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[…] 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 […]
[…] For all his deconstruction and demystification, Miller has not done enough to show the allegiance to the state among media personnel. Daphne Park, for example, of the BBC Board of Governors, is not described as former senior MI6 officer. Paul Wilkinson is frequently quoted, but there is nothing on his part in the disinformation […]
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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
