[…] of détente, he was a politician who gave early encouragement to Perle, Ledeen, Frank Gaffney (a member of the Reagan administration and since much used by the BBC), Carl Gershman (see below) and a whole swathe of politicos and propagandists later to be known as Neoconservatives. Travelling from Britain with Chalfont were Brian Crozier, […]
[…] miss five years earlier. Only the veteran journalist Alastair Cooke gave the 1998 crisis any serious discussion in two editions of his ‘Letter from America’, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 15 June and 11 August this year. The story is instructive on two levels. First because it suggests that it may be wrong […]
[…] that is Field Marshall Montogmery of Alamein, the commander of the Eighth Army during the Second World War. From 1931 to 1947 he was employed by the BBC in Northern Ireland in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). From 1952-71 he was a member […]
[…] Office-funded) adjunct to their ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ initiatives. The board includes: Princess Anne, Lords Brittan, Carr, Hunt and Merlyn-Rees, Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy (Kingfisher plc), Michael Hastings ( BBC), Nathaniel Sloane (Accenture), Matt Baggott (Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police), Liz Wicksteed (Home Office) and Sir Stanley Kalms (Treasurer of the Conservative Party). (7) Demos […]
[…] Campbell and his people in the CIC preparing the second ‘intelligence-based dossier’ which was endorsed by Colin Powell at the UN. On 5 February 2003 Andrew Gilligan, BBC Defence Correspondent, and formerly at the Sunday Telegraph, announced that he had received a leaked document from Defence Intelligence staff – i.e. the military – which […]
[…] financial civil service with the current crisis? I doubt it. But there are odd flickers of rethinking going on within the almost brain-dead NuLab. Interviewed on the BBC, Foreign Secretary David Milli-band en passant referred to manufacturing being twice the size of the financial sector – something no NuLab minister would have said or […]
Chris Moore Marino Books, (an imprint of Mercier Press), 16 Hume St., Dublin 2, Ireland. £6.99 Chris Moore worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland during most of ‘the troubles’ and should have been ideally suited to write a decent account of Kincora and its surrounding scandals. Alas, this book is a complete turkey. […]
[…] Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) Gary Murray (11), Robin Ramsay (12), […]
[…] up in Private Eye (16 July, 1982, p. 20). Duncan Campbell and John Rentoul, ‘All Out War’, New Statesman, 24 August 1984. I learnt this from a BBC journalist shortly afterwards. Reported, for example in The Observer, 6 January, 1991. Strategic Advisory Group of the Joint Strategic Planning Staff, US Strategic Air Command, ‘The […]
[…] Warfare kit to collect……some seeds. Being Frank In his account of being shot in Iraq, ‘The man who would not die’ in The Guardian 19 April 2005, BBC correspondent Frank Gardner said of the person who shot him: ‘He didn’t see me as a non-partisan reporter who’s simply trying to report what’s going on.’ […]
