The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] . 15 See or . 16 17 Listed at . 18 6 Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of BBC staff.19 I have no idea, I replied. The story on the BBC News website is worth reading – if only for the strong whiff of ‘the […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, fatuously headlined ‘The Ukrainian TV show that predicted the future’. or . 2 1 
 Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, fatuously headlined ‘The Ukrainian TV show that predicted the future’. or . 2 1 
 Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, fatuously headlined ‘The Ukrainian TV show that predicted the future’. or . 2 1 
 Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, fatuously headlined ‘The Ukrainian TV show that predicted the future’. or . 2 1 
 Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] becoming aware of Kerr’s intentions to dismiss the government – the queen (sic) would delay responding, thereby stalling Whitlam. It will be interesting to see if the BBC news returns to this subject now it has been revived. They ran a slightly softer version of the story 2020 when the book was first published.75 […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] US plans for military aggression 29 ‘Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The US Tilts Toward Iraq, 1980-1984’, National Security Archive, Washington, 25 February 2003, at . 30 BBC, On This Day, ‘US Warship Shoots Down Iranian Airliner’, July 3, 1988. 31 BBC, On This Day, ‘Thousands Die in Gas Attack’, 16 March 1988. Speaking […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the queen (sic) 71 72 73 This first appeared here: . 74 23 would delay responding, thereby stalling Whitlam. It will be interesting to see if the BBC news returns to this subject now it has been revived. They ran a slightly softer version of the story 2020 when the book was first published.75 […]

The two Goulds

Lobster Issue

[…] domestic manufacturing economy. Neil Kinnock, party leader after 1983, chose as his economic advisor the Cambridge economist John Eatwell. In 1982 Eatwell had written and fronted a BBC TV series, 1 In most other European countries what we might call the Heathite Conservatives and the centre-right of the Labour Party would have long since […]

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