South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] fact that there has been more than a little victim-shaming – sometimes subtle, other times not so. Take, for example, a piece by Gordon Corera for the BBC in 2021, detailing information on U.S. diplomats who were suing their government employer.1 Corera states that ‘members of the public, some with mental health issues, approach […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] wrote in 1926) that ‘many big undertakings’ (notably public utilities) ‘need to be semisocialised’,5 in the form of semi-autonomous public corporations. But in organizations such as the BBC, the Bank of England, the Port of London Authority, ‘the big utility enterprise’ and ‘big insurance’ firms, and even the railway companies, Keynes identified a tendency […]

The Brexit impasse

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] this out last year, it Scott Newton, ‘The Conservatives and Europe: the long view’, History and Policy Opinion Paper, January 2013, or . 14 Matt Drake, ‘ BBC Newsnight: Lord Heseltine “in favour” of voting for “horrific” Corbyn to STOP (sic) Brexit’, Daily Express, 10 November 2017. 15 still involves a very significant U-turn. […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] fact that there has been more than a little victim-shaming – sometimes subtle, other times not so. Take, for example, a piece by Gordon Corera for the BBC in 2021, detailing information on U.S. diplomats who were suing their government employer.1 Corera states that ‘members of the public, some with mental health issues, approach […]

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[…] 81. 38 39 I saw it at . 40 13 One inch to the east Steve Rosenberg’s ‘Our Man in Moscow’, about his life there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] was prompted to look at it for the first time in a while by seeing the headline on Gosling’s latest email collection: ‘Wife-Killer Prince Charles Flexes Orwellian BBC Mind-Control Muscle, Eyes Global Great Reset & Peace Antichrist Roles’. Yesterday’s men Two of yesterday’s men, Conservative MPs Philip Hammond, former Chancellor the Exchequer, and Alan […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] two things about me, says FBI interrogator’, CNN Opinion. 21 March 2023, at or . 36 Gordon Corera, ‘How the search for Iraq’s secret weapons fell apart’, BBC News, 21 March 2023, at . 37 David Frum, ‘The Iraq War reconsidered’, The Atlantic, 13 March 2023 at or . 38 See Bergen (note 35). […]

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[…] 2014 launched a military attack against those two provinces in the Donbass region. or 19 20 21 6 In support of that proposition, he cites a 2014 BBC News report which begins: Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov has announced the start of an “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists. But the BBC piece also reported: […]

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[…] unconstitutional government on April 16, 2014 launched a military attack against those two provinces in the Donbass region. In support of that proposition, he cites a 2014 BBC News report which begins: Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov has announced the start of an “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists. But the BBC piece also reported: […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 81. 38 39 I saw it at . 40 13 One inch to the east Steve Rosenberg’s ‘Our Man in Moscow’, about his life there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not […]

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