[…] Presumably this refers to the Economist’s Foreign Report, among whose editors were Brian Crozier and Robert Moss. ‘Crucial to the IRD’s success was its relationship with the BBC.’ (p. 29) What is wrong with Mayhew’s account is his ignorance of the way IRD developed long after his involvement with it; he remembers it simply […]
[…] movements were gathering strength everywhere, Omo was being sold all over the Caribbean, Africa and the African Middle East with the advertising strapline ‘Omo washes whitest…..’ 2 BBC 6 O’clock News, 3 October 2003. The high profile launch of the American doughnut chain contrasts with the non-existent one in many London suburbs of the […]
[…] the Hess Affair was due to be screened in Holland in September 1990. Dr Hugh Thomas said ‘I offered both Dr Andrew and the producer of the BBC programme sight of the old 1941 file but they refused to look at it.’ Thomas says he first met Oldfield when serving as an army surgeon […]
[…] perhaps the biggest obscenity of them all. Faced with the death of David Kelly he managed to turn the Hutton Inquiry into a witch hunt of the BBC. Blair’s legacy? Well, Tony saved the Tory Party from oblivion through his failure to deliver the socialist goods. He also enabled the BNP to appear radical […]
[…] the high levels of white cells in their blood. Four patients died, and two developed encephalitis. In 1968, Eric Hadden, then Director of Porton Down, in a BBC interview admitted that CS gas was tested on ‘aged people, asthmatic people, young people.'(23) In a letter to me in October 1993 Dr. Graham Pearson, former […]
[…] a peace agreement with Germany in 1941. Thomas’s theory was examined in a highly critical film by Dr Christopher Andrew of Corpus Christie College, Cambridge, for the BBC 2 history programme Timewatch in January. Andrew maintained that Hess was Hess after all and that he had probably committed suicide. The Thomas story was, Andrew […]
[…] and campaigning journalists such as John Pilger. Their main, but not exclusive, focus is on the liberal newspapers, such as The Guardian and The Independent and the BBC. This is because the papers are allegedly writing from a viewpoint that is in some way critical of the powers that be, and the latter because […]
[…] Jenkins of Hillhead. She is now a senior colleague of Mandelson’s close friend, Sir John Birt, in her job as deputy managing director of the Foreign Office-funded BBC World Service. Liddle’s brother-in-law is Liberal Democrat peer Lord Newby of Rothwell, now a director of the public affairs company, Matrix Communications. Newby left the Civil […]
[…] Fuel Air device destroyed all evidence of the illegal counter-strike too, by incinerating bodies. In the search for corroboration I was advised to contact Tim Sebastian, former BBC correspondent and well-known author. Sebastian confirmed he also had the same information as I, and recommended I contact the Countess of Mar – a member of […]
[…] played a significant role in this.()Programmes either ridiculing local government or calling it into question (‘Beadle’s About’, ‘That’s Life’, for example) are ultimately quite corrosive. The current BBC approach to reporting serious issues, Paxman scoffing at all interviewees, the daily knocking copy of the ‘Today’ programme and the various polite but lightweight Dimbleby panel […]
