Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] leads a campaign to join the euro (via two year membership of the ERM) with the great and the good, the CBI, the big multi-nationals and the BBC and ITV. This succeeds narrowly and the UK duly enters the ERM – at around 3 D-marks to the pound – too high for the manufacturing […]

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Vatican Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] by the Vatican to shore up the Italian state; and a suggestion that John Connally is linked to Mafia figures. (SD) 22. Two large articles by ex- BBC Journalist Tom Bower on Klaus Barbie and his links with US intelligence. (ST 3rd July, IHT 6th July, 1983). The articles are similar, though the IHT […]

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View from Bridge

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[…] Strands of the Trump Coup Attempt https://www.thebulwark.com/the-six-main-strands-of-the-trump-coupattempt/?amp https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kleptocracy-problem/summary Mena https://www.judicialwatch.org/guns-drugs-cia-at-mena-arkansas-judicialwatch-demands-answers/ https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00058/mazur-deeper-into-theclintons-cia-drug-nexus.htm https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/06/despite-heard-didnt-load-guncapitol-hill-attack/ Despite what you’ve heard, I didn’t load the gun for the Capitol Hill attack The BBC wanted to tell a story about runaway conspiracies, and use me – and my reports from decades ago – as a theatre prop ByAmbrose Evans-Pritchard 6 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and the big noises of politics, capital and the state. In this case it wasn’t fearful warnings about ‘missing the European boat’, but other terrors – […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] experiments in the years running up to the flood.’ 2 Of Project Cumulus, or Operation Witch Doctor as it was nicknamed by Squadron Leader Len Otley, the BBC reported how the glider pilot Alan Yates sprayed chemicals over Bedfordshire, after which ‘Scientists told him it caused a heavy downpour in Staines, 50 miles (80 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the South Yorkshire Police and the Margaret Thatcher set followed by Murdoch, the ‘war on terror’ warriors and the Tony Blair set? The Birtists The demise of BBC director general, George Entwistle, was hastened by a lacklustre performance before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.7 He was accompanied there by David Jordan, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that is Field Marshall Montgomery 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). 7 See for example . 8 […]

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[…] promised £30 billion a year extra on defence spending, and to increase spending on health and all the rest, is for the birds.34 Israel, Gaza and the BBC I’m almost beginning to feel sorry for the higher echelons of the BBC trying to deal with the dilemmas posed by the Israeli assault on Gaza. […]

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[…] £30 billion a year extra on defence spending, and to increase spending on health and all the rest, is for the birds.15 *new* Israel, Gaza and the BBC I’m almost beginning to feel sorry for the higher echelons of the BBC trying to deal with the dilemmas posed by the Israeli assault on Gaza. […]

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