Don’t Mention The War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] 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 […]

The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] 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 […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] 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 […]

Mind control etc

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. […]

Sources

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 […]

Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] exposed by its editor-in-chief, Mr Jacques Verges, as ‘agent provocateur’. Mr Gibson then married a white woman in London, had broadcast on the African Service of the BBC, had worked for CBS news in New York and Agence France Presse in Paris as a specialist in African affairs.” (pp431-2) There were stories, disinformation, linking […]

Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, open government and the Hutton Inquiry

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] net result may have been to omit words or qualifying statements or to present as certainties matters which were only probabilities – misleading, though not, as the BBC, asserted, mendacious’ (p. 76) I leave it to the reader to consider the distinction between misleading and mendacious. This view is only of interest if the […]

MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] ground and if anyone has some on the IPLO, I would be interested to see it. Her talk that night is available, incidentally, in printed form, from BBC Educational Developments, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS. No price is given on my copy. One variant of which is the ‘Kurdish extremist threat’. The Sunday […]

RE:

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] Awards.For more recent views on the death of Dr. Kelly see Paul Brandon et al, ‘The death of David Kelly and the “sexed up” WMD report: was BBC Andrew Gilligan’s original source a senior member of Her Majesty’s Government?’ at . ‘The record on CURVEBALL: declassified documents and key participants show the importance of […]

Parafinance: Enron and drilling for red ink

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] congressmen. Chairing the relevant committee in Congress, Phil Gramm was among the leading beneficiaries. His wife, Wendy Gramm, had retired as head of the regulatory body governing futures trading in commodities and became head of Enron’s audit committee. She had a relatively small salary but rather large stock options.. BBC News, Friday, November 5, 1999

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