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... 2003, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, President George W Bush presentedthe Presidential Medal of Freedomtothat scourge of CIA-under-the-bed paranoids everywhere, Lord Robertson of Port Ellen. Beams and motes A splendid riposte was handed to Robertson's old chum, Denis MacShane, in the letters column of The Guardian. The former BBC reporter turned international trade union official and then Foreign Office minister, had taken issue with former Washington ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer. He claimed the man who is now chairman of the Press Complaints Commission had used inside government information for private gain in his book on Blair foreign policy, and went on to say strong things about the PCC. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-14.htm
... of government spending on PMCs, earlier this year, writing in the Guardian, Richard Norton-Taylor, reported that, 'Foreign Office spending on contracts with private UK security companies rose from £12.6m in 2003 to £48.9m in 2012, according to official figures. '9 One of the memorable jokes from the 1980s BBC comedy 'Yes Minister' is along the lines of, 'If those are the official figures, then you can imagine just how much it really is! ' British dominance A reflection of the British dominance of the PMC industry is that the website for the United States Embassy in Baghdad provides a list of ten security companies working in country, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 15 Jan 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster73/lob73-team-mercenary-gb.pdf
... The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia..... In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, 'the sixth man'. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that Belfrage has been leaking material to the Soviets on instruction from BSC (British Security Co-ordination).1 Simkins included this killer paragraph: 'If Gordon Corea [of the BBC] and the other journalists working on this story had carried out a simple search for "Cedric Belfrage" on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 11 Nov 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... to tourism."'(24) (emphasis added) Will these attitudes – the contempt for 'making widgets' – really disappear from the upper echelons of the British financial civil service with the current crisis? I doubt it. But there are odd flickers of rethinking going on within the almost brain-dead NuLab. Interviewed on the BBC, Foreign Secretary David Milli-band en passant referred to manufacturing being twice the size of the financial sector – something no NuLab minister would have said or thought until recently.(25) Chances are good, of course, that we will be told: that no-one in NuLab ever really believed that the service sector in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-14.htm
... ' at <https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/oman-our-kind-of-guy/>. Four members of the SAS team sent to Oman to assist in the 1970 coup had defrauded the Sultan of 'thousands of pounds in a payroll scam', on which see <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2 /hi/uk_news/politics/232271. stm> and <http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/ 1998/dec/09/oman#S6CV0322P0_19981209_CWA_20>. 20 See John K. Cooley, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 09 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-team-mercenary.pdf
... had been on standby to speak to negotiators. ' (p . 164) A gap had opened between what the Liberal-Democrats were saying in their election campaign and its literature and what their leader was thinking. 'Even during the election, Clegg had been moving on the issue - but without telling the electorate. He later told the BBC that he had changed his view during the general election: "Remember between March and the actual general election, a financial earthquake occurred on our European doorstep."'(p . 168) 'One Clegg aide said: "The thing that changed minds was George Osborne saying that he had seen the figures and it was quite horrific ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... , Cambridge. Montgomery was the son of Major-General Hugh Maude de Fellenberg Montgomery. His uncle became Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and his second cousin was Bernard Montgomery, that is Field Marshall Montogmery of Alamein, the commander of the Eighth Army during the Second World War. From 1931 to 1947 he was employed by the BBC in Northern Ireland in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). From 1952-71 he was a member of the BBC Northern Ireland Advisory Council, and from 1963-71 on the BBC General Advisory Council. He was the Honourary ADC to the Governor of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-02.htm
... 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
... children. ' 7 I think the British state's plan is to keep kicking Kincora into the long grass until all the witnesses from the intelligence world are dead. Grauniadia Off-guardian.org, the site which monitors the Guardian, has a splendid piece on the Guardian's initial handling of the Panama 4 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35997873> 5 Goddard inquiry site is at <https://www.iicsa.org.uk>./ 6 <http://powerbase.info/images/8 /87/ Morris_Fraser_investigation_ SPINWATCH_31_March ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 10 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-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
