PR, espionage and language

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 […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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)

[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)

[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)

[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, […]

Nurse Death’s little helper: 
Sir David Davis and the PR campaign to free Lucy Letby


Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Point of Order about the LIBOR scandal, Sir David also appeared to use the Commons to publicise a forthcoming book about the LIBOR trading scandal, by former BBC economics editor Andy Verity. Sir David told the Chamber that Mr Verity’s book would present ‘a prima facie case to believe that state agencies coerced individuals […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Point of Order about the LIBOR scandal, Sir David also appeared to use the Commons to publicise a forthcoming book about the LIBOR trading scandal, by former BBC economics editor Andy Verity. Sir David told the Chamber that Mr Verity’s book would present ‘a prima facie case to believe that state agencies coerced individuals […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Point of Order about the LIBOR scandal, Sir David also appeared to use the Commons to publicise a forthcoming book about the LIBOR trading scandal, by former BBC economics editor Andy Verity. Sir David told the Chamber that Mr Verity’s book would present ‘a prima facie case to believe that state agencies coerced individuals […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Point of Order about the LIBOR scandal, Sir David also appeared to use the Commons to publicise a forthcoming book about the LIBOR trading scandal, by former BBC economics editor Andy Verity. Sir David told the Chamber that Mr Verity’s book would present ‘a prima facie case to believe that state agencies coerced individuals […]

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