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... popular TV series, Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister (1980-1988), which had as their central plot device a pathetic and hapless politician who is effortlessly outmanoeuvred by self-serving senior officials. They were co-written by Sir Anthony Jay, a right-wing polemicist, whose production company also produced the 1979 BBC series Free to Choose in which Peter Jay (his cousin) sympathetically interviewed Milton Friedman about his monetarist views. There is a clear undertow of cynicism and contempt for parliamentary democracy evident in these programmes. anxious to have it sorted out prior to Polling Day. ' O'Donnell's activities were not given a great deal of publicity and culminated in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 26 Jul 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-running-britain.pdf
... himself had been so disappointed with the eventual publication. He had wanted his life's work to be an unchallengeable history of Soviet misdeeds, not a compendium of inaccurate tales of espionage. ' (p . 314) Symonds' account ends with this devastating final paragraph. 'In retrospect, nobody emerges from the Mitrokhin affair with much credit. The BBC and The Times competed against each other to see who could renege on their agreements first; MI5 tried every slippery trick to conceal Dame Stella's stunning incompetence; Alpass tried to protect his former MI5 colleagues and then caved in to pressure brought by SIS on behalf of the BBC; senior civil servants conspired to keep their ministers in the dark ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 15 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-romeo-spy.pdf
... the Labour Party and some of the non-Bennite, non-socialist left – the so-called soft left – began considering controlling the City in the interests of the domestic manufacturing economy. Neil Kinnock, party leader after 1983, chose as his economic advisor the Cambridge economist John Eatwell. In 1982 Eatwell had written and fronted a BBC TV series, 1 In most other European countries what we might call the Heathite Conservatives and the centre-right of the Labour Party would have long since formed a third party, a social democratic party, and consigned the Tory free marketeers and the Labour Party's socialists to the fringes. It is a measure of the power of tribe ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-two-goulds.pdf
... I wonder why! ' Most wanted The private detective was Christopher Guest More, 68, a millionaire jailed at Chester Crown Court for nine months in 2004 for helping his son to escape to Spain after the torture and murder of a cannabis farmer in Cheshire. His son, also known as Christopher Guest More, had been working for the BBC as a fixer and investigator on a programme called Crooked Britain. He is still wanted by the Serious Organised Crimes Agency and his picture, taken on his father's estate in Lymm, Cheshire, appears on the Interpol Infra-Red list of wanted men. Cheshire police say the murder case cost Chris More senior £350,000. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-mark-lewis.pdf
... , makes some heavily qualified, but poorly sourced and inaccurate claims that the Rothschilds not only financed Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt, but from 'early on' were committed to creating a 'Weishauptian world rule'.6 0 The historical record is less convincing. Despite their support for a number of geopolitical 57 'Iraq war illegal, says Annan', BBC News, 16 August 2004. 58 Philippe Sands, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, (London: Allen Lane, 2005), p. 203; and Richard Wolin, 'The idea of cosmopolitanism: from Kant to the Iraq war and beyond', Ethics & Global Politics, Vol. 3 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-rothschild.pdf
... more depressing? That he really believed 'the rising tide lifts all boats' story before, or that he didn't but was unwilling to say so until now? When Gordon Brown dips into the bullshit basket he calls for some global action which he knows will never take place but which he thinks sounds impressive. His latest was reported on the BBC News website: he wants a 'global fund for education'.6 No doubt this will be next on the list after the new global financial system he wants is in place. Labour and the City W ho is doing the economic thinking for Labour these days? Well, Katherine 'Kitty' Ussher is. A Labour MP from 2005 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 05 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... . The GCC and the first Iraq war Arguably, all that undermined US plans for military aggression 29 'Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The US Tilts Toward Iraq, 1980-1984', National Security Archive, Washington, 25 February 2003, at <www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/>. 30 BBC, On This Day, 'US Warship Shoots Down Iranian Airliner', July 3, 1988. 31 BBC, On This Day, 'Thousands Die in Gas Attack', 16 March 1988. Speaking on Al Jazeera's 'Inside Story' on 9 November 2011, an Iranian academic made the point that Iranian civilians are still suffering from these attacks ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 07 Apr 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-armed-dangerous.pdf
... prepared-to-do-business-with-6272766.html> by Tim (Lord) Bell, the man who helped make Margaret Thatcher, was Mattinson, Gould's old sidekick in the 'modernisation' of Labour. Hill's partner is Hilary Coffman, who previously worked for Kinnock and Michael Foot. BAP and the BEEB Hill's sister, BBC chief editorial adviser Margaret, is a long- standing member of the British American Project (Lobsters passim) whose members now seem to fill more and more of the time of the corporation's cash-strapped current affairs output. Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman was for many years poster boy on the BAP website (his photograph was recently removed); ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 18 Dec 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-tittle-tattle.pdf
... . 256, 261-262 infamously, they advised Enron for nearly two decades, but to the surprise of industry experts, 'McKinsey managed to get out unscathed from the Enron debacle'.4 Jeffrey Skilling, the president of Enron, currently serving a 24 year jail sentence, is a former McKinsey partner. McKinsey advised Railtrack and the BBC on how to cut costs.5 After he left the BBC, Lord Birt (another Baron!) went to work for them. Another McKinsey man was Adair Turner (yet another Baron!), who, after heading the Confederation of British Industry from 1995 until 1999 (he was the third McKinsey associate in a row to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 18 Dec 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-lord-browne.pdf
... the Radio 4 'Today' programme; and thus, as 'Today' sets the daily political agendum for so much of the British media, for a time one of the more powerful people in British politics. Commenting on Guilty Men, he rebuts a position that Oborne and Weaver do not hold: namely that there was a conspiracy within the BBC, and offers an insider's view that is exactly that of the authors: 'Oborne seems to imply that there was a covert plot within the top echelons of the BBC in favour of the European project, and that's not true either. It is rather 6 <www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 20 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-view-bridge.pdf
