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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 31) June 1996 Last| Contents| Next Issue 31 The Kincora Scandal Chris Moore Marino Books, (an imprint of Mercier Press), 16 Hume St., Dublin 2, Ireland. £6.99 Chris Moore worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland during most of 'the troubles' and should have been ideally suited to write a decent account of Kincora and its surrounding scandals. Alas, this book is a complete turkey. It's got no index, and no sources notes; all too frequently, where Moore does cite another source, a newspaper, for example, he gives no date. Even if it had been adequately documented, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-13.htm
... with official sources." (emphasis added) (The possible significance of 1978 is considered below.) As the Economic League collects information on the left and unions, who could those 'official sources' be but MI5 and/or its assistants in Special Branch (166) The flood of information following the revelation of MI5 vetting within the BBC shows the Government Departments-MI5 link still going strong. (167) In 1981 Special Branch admitted passing information (and totally inaccurate information, at that) to the firm Taylor Woodrow. And it is quite obvious from the context that the information must have been sought by Taylor Woodrow first. In other words, Special Branch were running security ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-11.htm
... IRA, and we have learned that the UDA's 'intelligence officer' in the 1980s, Brian Nelson, was an Army Intelligence agent, this is a pretty stupid line to defend. Nonetheless this line is at the heart of both of the Bruce and Urban books. Urban is an interesting figure. A sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing it. While non-attributable briefings are hardly a secret, the well-behaved media servant of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-11.htm
... they perceive to be inaccuracies, distortions and omissions, in particular related to political and environmental matters. They take their inspiration from media analysts such as Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman and campaigning journalists such as John Pilger. Their main, but not exclusive, focus is on the liberal newspapers, such as The Guardian and The Independent and the BBC. This is because the papers are allegedly writing from a viewpoint that is in some way critical of the powers that be, and the latter because it aspires to be accurate and a public service broadcaster, not beholden to commercial pressures. The book is structured around several key episodes in modern history: the second Gulf War and the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-39.htm
... judgements of the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words I'd heard on the BBC were there. But so was her description of how as a 21-year-old Oxford student the then Shirley Catlin was funded by the US government to take the Young Atlantic Leaders trip around America. Then, while subsequently enjoying a Fulbright Page 126 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Fellowship in the US, 'I received a telegram summoning me back to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-126.pdf
... from Conservative Party groups or fronts, continued with Aims of Industry. Aims estimated that they had gained 93,178 column-inches of editorial space in 1949, worth over £1 ,800,000.(49) In the first six months of 1949 Aims claims to have had 41 radio broadcasts on the Home or Light programmes of the BBC; and just before the election of 1950 in January, 362 magazines and newspapers gave 11,269 column inches to Aims-inspired stories. Aims magazine, The Voice of Industry, thanked the British press for their 'impartial partnership', in March 1950, noting that 'News about the achievements of private enterprise and the failures of nationalisation and state ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-03.htm
... for and the legitimacy of, the state of Israel, Searchlight was then pushing the idea that the Tories had been infiltrated by a barely disguised group of semi-fascists. This climaxed with the 'Maggie's Militants' edition of the BBC's flagship documentary programme, Panorama, in 1984, based on Searchlight's research, which led to successful legal action against the BBC. As it turned out, the significant infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s 'bridge' between the Tory right and the fascist/authoritarian right, symbolised by the late George Kennedy Young, but from the other direction entirely, the libertarians, mainly those associated with the Libertarian Alliance, who were not ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-40b.htm
... interest rates. Gordon Brown would have said, 'It's already in our program, Lord Cromer,' but Wilson threatened to call a general election on the theme of the government or the Bank of England. Cromer backed down in a hurry. On 3 January 1997 the Guardian carrried a long, splendidly condescending letter from John Cole, erstwhile BBC political editor, pointing out that this Wilson-Cromer conflict was not news, that it had been described in great detail in, for example, Wilson's own account of his first term in office. I like some of Hennessy's books. His Cabinet, for example, is full of interesting bits and pieces. But like most British political scientists ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-06.htm
... to prevent the extradition of the NatWest Three, caught in the long shadow of Enron. The old friend of Tony and Cherie Blair was a young barrister when she was recruited to the Atlanticist freemasonry in 1987. BAP was not just a rite of passage for Baroness Scotland. She continues to serve on the UK advisory board with her old BBC pal James Naughtie and Mike Maclay, the man from Hakluyt. The small irony she may have pondered as she flew west on behalf of the wealthy City trio was that one of the funders of the BAP used to be the NatWest Charitable Trust. The influence of the unelected Baroness Scotland may wane rapidly once Blair goes, but the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-10.htm
... can send any man off the field and call our man on any time he likes." (Perspectives issue 8). As it happens I had a copy of Perspectives, issue 8, and looked it up. This is what they had published: 'In Lobster 26 Robin Ramsay recalls the one section that was apparently cut from a BBC Panorama documentary on MI5 et al in 1981. This was Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, declaring: "British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the captain or vice-captain, and if not, he is the referee and can send any man off the field ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-08.htm
