Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] 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 […]
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 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] MI6 is rigging the House of Commons procedure in favour of “Red Ken”.’ Quite soon after this article appeared Neil Grant, then a schoolteacher, was offered and accepted a job at the BBC with Panorama, where he is now a producer, and ceased to supply Livingstone with questions about the British spooks and Northern Ireland.
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] is the wife of a local Tory party worker. The case of another Bedfordshire woman with Alzheimer’s who was apparently tricked into voting was taken up by BBC news. Louisa Garrett was seen on TV claiming that she ‘doesn’t really know’ who she voted for, but that she had ‘voted for Tony Blair and […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] (some of his own staff referred to him as ‘Mr Prime Minister’), but Wyatt provides some additional touches. ‘Duke’ Hussey, it seems, only became chairman of the BBC on Murdoch’s strong recommendation. (Vol. 1, p. 201) More important was what Murdoch could do for Thatcher and what she could do for him. On 11 […]