GArrick reduced

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Growth Fund and the Business bank.’ Dallas ‘63 We are going to get a torrent of bullshit about the Kennedy assassination in the next couple of months. BBC Radio 4 contributed a piece called ‘The Reunion’ in which a group of people who were in Dallas in 1963 when it happened recalled the events. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Journal version was ‘Covid-19: Local health teams trace eight times more contacts than national service’ at . 25 or 26 Forget the Palestinians On 13 August the BBC News carried the story of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations.27 There was much related talk about how good […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] CIA. On the SDP and its American connections see Tom Easton, ‘Who were they travelling with?’ in Lobster 31. 15 Dom’s the word So I watched the BBC profile of Dominic Cummings, which boiled down to this: Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] has reached issue 167.77 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.78 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] has reached issue 167.63 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.64 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] CIA. On the SDP and its American connections see Tom Easton, ‘Who were they travelling with?’ in Lobster 31. 15 Dom’s the word So I watched the BBC profile of Dominic Cummings, which boiled down to this: Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: Gone but not forgotten . . . UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others Jon Sopel BBC Books, 2021, £20.00, h/b The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism, and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus, And Why aren’t We Done With Him Yet? S V Date […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] associate at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology). They link the Savile Scandal – ‘the most prominent chapter in recent UK cultural history, in which the former BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile is alleged to have sexually abused hundreds of children over the past fifty years’ – with the satanic ritual abuse scandal ‘which swept […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] attorney; Murray Mindlin – who was company secretary;7 and John Hay Whitney. As company secretary, Mindlin was succeeded by Kenneth Eugene Donaldson (1965/66); John Tusa (now on BBC TV’s Newsnight) (1967); and Chewn Jotikashira (1968). John C Hunt was FWF Director (1965-66) and ran the Paris headquarters of the CCF as senior assistant to […]

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