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... developed countries over the last two centuries: democratic rights and freedoms, economic security, the chance to live a dignified, pr0ductive, fulfilling life. ' The previous British referendum on 'Europe' was scarcely a balanced affair. Most of the press promoted the 'Yes' campaign, as did much of the political establishment, the CIA, the BBC and the Information Research Department. This time the forces are less uneven and McGiffen's material could help lay the basis for a more serious debate. Whether we get one, of course, is another matter entirely. Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-41a.htm
... 30 million in political contributions to key 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-03.htm
... ' (Vol. 1, p. 59). Murdoch and Thatcher Murdoch's position as a close friend and ally of Margaret Thatcher has been well documented (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 June 1987, both Wyatt and Murdoch were at a party at Cliveden to celebrate Thatcher's election victory. 'When Ken Livingstone appeared on TV to blame Labour's defeat on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-08.htm
... the KGB. MI5's number one enemy is not the KGB but MI6. On the evidence available at present, the best hypothesis is that 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. Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-19.htm
... Chaired by Andrew Purkis (who is also Chief Executive of the Diana, Princess of Wales Fund, one of several Green Alliance figures connected to the 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 of Green Alliance is by invitation only. A list of current individual donors and corporate members/funders can be found in their annual report. (29 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-03.htm
... the report was going to be released (and thus, implicitly, while Young may have breached the OSA, it didn't matter because the secret wouldn't be secret much longer). EuroFAQ()distributed the text of a letter dated 7 August from the chair of the UK Independence Party, Jeremy Titford MEP, to the governors of the BBC. The letter included this:'...the news revealed by Andrew Neil, one of the BBC's presenters, on a recent Radio 5 Live breakfast show, when he said that the BBC's 'Europarty' - a group of senior staff at the BBC - had conspired to keep out of the news, all day, a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-03.htm
167. Feedback [Lobster #40 (Winter 2000/1)]
... that planners were concerned that a residue of VX nerve agent might have been blown back towards coalition troops and, therefore, utilised air fuel explosives to incinerate every last surviving particle of nerve agent. The best approach for Mr. Hambling, as for Mr. Hollick [see Lobster 38 ], 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 fully corroborated Black Cat during a month- long trip to the US in late 1998. He also knew that a second mission that he dubbed Black Cat 11 had taken place but remained ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-22.htm
... Next Issue 39 Where's Ware?John Ware is one of the leading British TV journalists of our age. He has worked for World in Action and Panorama and is held in very high regard by his colleagues. Having produced a number of documentaries on the war in Northern Ireland he is now seen as an expert on the area by the BBC and it is said that nothing gets broadcast about Northern Ireland by the BBC which has hasn't been cleared by Ware and/or Peter Taylor.(1 ) What follows arose through conversations between Simon Matthews and I during which we discovered we both had concerns about John Ware. He had written articles or produced TV documentaries about subjects of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 70 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-13.htm
... , its members, including Suttill, tortured and shot. Some of the leaders revealed the story of the Allied 'invasion' before they died. To back 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 to the Russian and Italian fronts. So Operation Starkey had been a complete failure (except as far as Dansey, who rejoiced at SOE's discomfiture, was concerned) and a terrible ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-08.htm
... 149-158) Gerald Posner op.cit. The Bodyguard's tale op. cit. Interview with Rees-Jones, 'Sole survivor', op. cit. Jonathan Dimbleby interview, op. cit. Comments made by Rees-Jones in an interview on France 2 television. (Quoted in 'Paparazzi's role in Diana accident' on BBC News Website at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_707000/707445.shmtl) Larry King Live interview, op. cit. Tim Reid, 'Al Fayed accuses Duke of plotting to murder Diana', The Times 23 November 1999. Ari Ben ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-03.htm
