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... led by Alan Crawford, an Australian music publisher. Crawford, who owned a number of record shops in London, said subsequently that he was interested in setting up a commercial radio station that would broadcast pop music to UK audiences because it would boost sales in his record shops at a time when pop music received very little exposure on the BBC Light Programme. Crawford may have had other reasons for involvement in this venture. He was also, for instance, a business partner of Major Oliver Smedley. Smedley was a founder member of the Institute of Economic Affairs and a prominent figure in UK free trade and libertarian political circles. Both Crawford and Smedley knew of the broadcasts of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 27 Nov 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-004.pdf
... up using the Internet. There have been two reports of this thus far. In July the Guardian reported that the Russian Federal Guard service had ordered 20 typewriters1 7 and the Telegraph reported on 27 September that the Indian High Commission had gone back to using typewriters.18 Crisis? What crisis? 15 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24560026> 16 <www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the- uk/10366941/ Edward-Snowden-MI5-The-Guardian-who-are-the-bad- 17 <www.theguardian.com/world/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 55 - 18 Dec 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-view-bridge.pdf
... and cock-up often go together but discusses only the more obvious conspiracies within the Nixon White House. The authors appear to know little about Watergate's place in and links to the American national security state revelations in the 1960s and 70s. However this 1 <http://www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org/> 2 <www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24650841> 3 Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Cock-ups: Watergate Edition' at <http://www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org/blog/category/complexity/>. is academic: examining conspiracies in the UK is not the direction the project is going ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 55 - 18 Jul 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-conspiracy-democracy.pdf
... they received. GKY gave general guidance as to what was wanted, but didn't dictate timing, or subject matter, wording or targets for the letters. I felt it was strange that I, an unknown, was given such an important task. I felt he just wanted to create an impression of activity and organisation. In January 1984 BBC broadcast Maggie's Militant Tendency' which concerned, inter alia, relations between MPs and Tory Action. Neil Hamilton and Harvey Proctor sued for defamation and in September 1986 the BBC subpoenaed me to produce documents re: Tory Action in order to support their case. I telephoned GKY that night to tell him what had happened: he advised me ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 54 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-21.htm
... picked up his – it usually is a he – latest little gem. What's disappointing is how little insight into Atlanticism these big beasts of the journalistic firmament bring back to London when their Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan's IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. But his old Guardian colleague, Jim Naughtie, is not far behind and also has all his British American Project (Lobsters passim) baggage – none of it disclosed to BBC Today programme listeners. One of the better ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 54 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-09.htm
... F'. But Soldier F has been identified before – you just needed to connect the dots. Writing in The Spectator on 2 July, Douglas Murray reminded us that Soldier F had killed at least four people – one of whom was teenager Michael Kelly.1 This fact had first been established at the Saville Inquiry in 2003, with BBC news reporting: Soldier F agreed at the Saville Inquiry on Thursday that he killed four people, but insisted he did not murder them. [. . . .] Soldier F admitted killing Michael Kelly, Barney McGuigan and Paddy Doherty and an unidentified man in Glenfada Park. ' 2 In 2011, an entry on the Belfast Diary ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 53 - 10 Aug 2021 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster82/lob82-south-of-the-border.pdf
... antisemitism-crisis-1 .486555> <https://tinyurl.com/yy8h4tdh> or <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ labour-antisemitism-corbyn-peers-advert-guardian-house-lords-a9007986.html Schlosberg concludes: But it was BBC television which performed the worst in this respect, its anchors and presenters repeatedly asserting the universal quality of the definition. ' Lerman's chapter on the history and formulation of the IHRA and his forensic response to the accusation of Labour institutional anti-semitism' is worth the price of the book in itself. The former director of the Institute ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 22 Nov 2019 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster78/lob78-bad-news-labour.pdf
... enabling the election of Margaret Thatcher and thus preventing the election of a Labour government formally committed to scrapping its nuclear weapons – presumably the primary aim of any campaign run by the CIA. On the SDP and its American connections see Tom Easton, Who were they travelling with? ' in Lobster 31. Dom's the word So I watched the BBC profile of Dominic Cummings, which boiled down to this: Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don't remember the campaign against the Euro. Since Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had made it clear he wouldn't support joining the single currency – which was about the only thing the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 06 May 2020 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster79/lob79-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... to face the fact that it made a dreadful mistake in going along with the Americans' fabrication. IRD and fake news The depositing of 2000 Information Research Department (IRD) files in the National Archives prompted a piece by the BBC's Sanchia Berg –'"Fake news" sent out by government department' – which is on the the BBC News website.36 Berg writes that This is the first time that IRD's own forgeries have been revealed'. 31A 2009 piece by the solicitor Gareth Peirce shows why. See <https://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/gareth-peirce/the-framing-of-al-megrahi ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 15 May 2019 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster77/lob77-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... being read by the Brown team during the parliamentary recess. Except Bush didn't beat the Democrats: the Republicans stole both elections; and the fascination this book has apparently roused is just an example of the inability of Labour and Democratic politicians to look reality in the face. Tunes and pipers Phil Chamberlain alerted me the reference in the blog of BBC Chief Political Correspondent Nick Robinson to Gordon Brown reading Frances Stonor Saunders' Who Paid The Piper?, her long account of the CIA's cultural war' in the 1950s and 60s against the Left. This was then picked up/also reported by Spectator editor Matthew d'Ancona who reported that he [Brown] has recently been inspired' by ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-26.htm