[…] little tip, with the notable exceptions of the Guardian and Channel Four News, the response of the media on mainland UK was pathetic, if hardly surprising. The BBC even got John Ware of all people, one of the co-authors of the notorious 1987 Independent smear-job on Wallace and Fred Holroyd, to give the first […]
[…] Trust, 2001) p. 841. 10 Lindsey Jenkins – see note 6 – p. 239. 11 British Management Data Foundation, ‘Document: A Letter to The Times’, Transcript of BBC Radio 4 programme broadcast on Thursday, 3 February 2000, (Stroud, Glos,: British Management Data Foundation) 12 Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War, 1948-1977 […]
[…] role in first attempt to float the RUC package smearing Holroyd, explaining McKittrick’s previous use of Wallace as apparently reliable source, and John Ware’s role in the BBC Panorama ‘investigation’ of the Wright/Wallace/MI5 plots story. 21 September 1987. Wallace receives report of polygraph (lie detector) report done on him and his central allegations by […]
[…] a flag while Dick is on the sofa reading the Constitution.’ Or Lord Birt as he now is, the famous Armani-clad ‘blue skies thinking’ ex-head of the BBC renowned for his unfathomable managerial gobbledygook (regularly reproduced in the pages of Private Eye). His ennoblement by the Revd. Blair is widely seen as a result […]
[…] British referendum on ‘Europe’ was scarcely a balanced affair. Most of the press promoted the ‘Yes’ campaign, as did much of the political establishment, the CIA, the BBC and the Information Research Department. This time the forces are less uneven and McGiffen’s material could help lay the basis for a more serious debate. Whether […]
[…] to the RV experiments in a letter to the Independent on Sunday, 1 October 1995. McRae, op. cit. 11, pp. 78-79, and Brian Josephson speaking on the BBC World Service radio programme ‘The Unexplained’, May 5, 1987. See Evan H. Walker, ‘Measurement in Quantum Mechanics Revisited’; Response to Phillip’s ‘Criticism of the Quantum Mechanical […]
[…] be a coincidence of course, but this Observer piece appeared just after the rumour ran through the little group of journalists then working with Wallace that the BBC Panorama team were going to do a hatchet job on him. Chances are that Leigh and Lashmar were just hedging their bets in case Wallace turned […]
[…] new actor chosen to play ‘James Bond’ whooshing up the Thames – there has been very little sign of SIS. One ‘sighting’ was its condemnation of a BBC dramatisation of the early lives of Messrs. Blunt, Burgess, McLean and Philby: the dramatist was blamed for a sensitivity by-pass SIS itself had created.(12) Another was […]
[…] devoted eight pages to him, and said he had been suffering from diabetes, heart trouble and pneumonia. Ceefax, on the other hand, the service broadcast by the BBC, devoted only one page, and announced he had been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. MI5 still in the building by any chance, Mr Birt? Who killed WPC […]
[…] insurgents, and the relocation of whole communities. The area of the British state’s social control assets where colonial methods have been introduced wholesale is policing. As the BBC TV programme “Brass Tacks” on the police assaults on the miners at Orgreave and the students at Manchester University showed, the British police have now adopted […]
