Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] 1st November 2002 on the occasion of her resignation: ‘I feel strongly that minimum standards of accountability and probity have not been upheld by some leading officers and members of the executive.’ According to the Tribune article, Ms Davis was referring to ‘allegations of financial malpractice’. 4 Any Questions, BBC Radio 4, 25 October 2002
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, […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[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 […]