Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘investigated’. She’s now in the Lords, too. As is former Truro Lib Dem MP Matthew Taylor. Retiring from the Commons at the general election he told the BBC on 10 April that Parliament was ‘spectacularly unsuccessful. I 2 89 Summer 2010 won’t miss it at all’. Lest we forget (1) The revealing Channel 4 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in the […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] for his homespun homilies. I was aware that Friedman’s ideas were in the air but had neither read nor seen him; and, like the politicians in the BBC studio, I was astonished: why was this idiot being taken seriously? At this distance the interesting historical question is: how and why did the editors of […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] four days before Hess’s, so we still rely on his memory that Hess used this plane. We are not told if either plane was flown later. This BBC Timewatch documentary ‘Hess: an Edge Of Conspiracy’ is interesting and fair. It is available on YouTube and also reviews the speech, photographic and hand-writing evidence supporting […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] McEnany, For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond (Saint Petersburg ; Liberatio Protocol, 2021), 1 1 Jon Sopel, the BBC correspondent, reported this episode, ‘innocent protestors exercising their First Amendment rights . . . were tear-gassed and rubber-bulleted out of the way’ for a ‘photo-op pure […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] – no evidence could be found that Smith had ever been arrested with a car boot full of sex magazines. After Danczuk first outed Smith (in 2012), BBC Newsnight ran a lengthy piece on the case. Careful scrutiny indicated that those making claims against Smith seemed to be alleging physical mistreatment (being knocked around, […]