Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] new actor chosen to play ‘James Bond’ whooshing up the Thames – there has been very little sign of SIS. One ‘sighting’ was its condemnation of a BBC dramatisation of the early lives of Messrs. Blunt, Burgess, McLean and Philby: the dramatist was blamed for a sensitivity by-pass SIS itself had created.(12) Another was […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] Committee? Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war dispute with the BBC, was one of the world’s leading experts on biological warfare? Did you know that this Downing Street spokesman was promptly promoted? Did you know that at […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[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 – […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[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, […]