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)
[…] Royal Family) (28), and includes on its board Burke and a number of quango members. Its funding and support comes from BP, Glaxo, Lever Brothers, Shell, the BBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Tarmac, Sainsburys, Tesco, the privatised utilities, the DETR, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Prince’s Trust. Green Alliance people Membership […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] the call) Minister of State for the Armed Forces. In November 1995, Soames had publicly claimed that the Princess was in ‘the advanced stages of paranoia’ (on BBC 2’s Newsnight) and said that she was pulling off ‘a very calculating and a very polished performance’ (Radio 4 Today programme) after her Panorama appearance. The […]