Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] army raid on the Golden Temple ended in disaster’ at . Those who have heard any of the general news reports filed by Mark Tully, on either BBC Radio 4 or the World service, will know that he is a measured and peaceful man. In his Telegraph piece, however, one can feel the huge […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] power – and its equally complex internal politics – are boiled down to a dumb story about sex and satanism. 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 […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] people in British politics. Commenting on Guilty Men, he rebuts a position that Oborne and Weaver do not hold: namely that there was a conspiracy within the BBC, and offers an insider’s view that is exactly that of the authors: ‘Oborne seems to imply that there was a covert plot within the top echelons […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] N evertheless and in spite of ongoing reputational damage, SIS continues to run an adept stand-alone PR campaign. Doubtless coincidentally, it was bookended this year by two BBC radio programmes: Tom Mangold’s Ship of Spies broadcast on the BBC World Service in February 2011 and Andrew Marr’s Start the week discussion with Gordon Corera, […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] workers and the lower middle-class of big cities’ is now overtaking support from the old industrial working-class. See Mason, ‘After Corbynism: Where next for Labour?’ . 7 BBC Reality Check Team, ‘How Many Labour Supporters Voted Leave?’ BBC News, 29 April 2019, . 8 (where public spending accounts for 56 per cent of the […]