[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a one-sided struggle. The ‘yes’ campaign had unlimited funding, the support of the City of London, the large British companies, the British state, its broadcasting apparatus (the BBC) and almost all the rest of the media, as well as covert assistance from the CIA and IRD. The ‘no’ campaign was out-spent ten or fifteen […]
[…] 1987, notably through the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the claim being that the operations against the Wilson government were designed to ‘stabilise’ not destabilise it; and by BBC TV producer Peter Taylor, who argued (Sunday Telegraph (21 January 1990) that ‘there was a conspiracy to remove from Northern Ireland but the purpose I believe […]
[…] current situation it is possible that the FCO are entirely happy to have Murray’s comments made available but are unable to admit so publicly. Reported on the BBC News Website of 3 August 2006. . See Richard Beeston and Tom Baldwin, ‘New blow for Blair over his policy on Lebanon’, The Times 2 September […]
