[…] with Lewis’ wife, Jane. The case became known as the ‘It’s a Knockout’ trial because the affair started when the couple organised a local heat of the BBC TV competition.” (Leveller ibid) In a recent report from David McKittrick, Wallace admitted to him that British intelligence had been guilty of serious misbehaviour. This included, […]
[…] French investigators allegedly showed Diana with her eyes open, apparently conscious and unhurt, and with no sign of blood on her body or her clothes.(33) Some early BBC bulletins even went so far as to describe her as ‘…walking and talking with a broken arm…'(34) Although the initial diagnosis of Diana’s condition may not […]
[…] Lobster 19 we referred to Keston College as a probable MI6 operation. One of our readers had the wit to send our reference to Keston to the BBC, asking for comments. The editor of the Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday’ replied that ‘It is not the first time we have encountered such suggestions, and we […]
[…] trend to target children; e.g. and however exciting, an espionage exhibition at a national London museum. The tactic is straight out of the marketing manuals. See ‘Ex- BBC and Blair aides hired’, The Independent 1 July 2006. The media played into its hands by publicising the incident, providing thousands of pounds of free advertising. […]
[…] entail a complete revision of extant accounts of that event; and students of the media will have to take on board the chapter on IRD and the BBC – not to mention the extraordinary fact that as late as 1976, 92 British journalists were on IRD’s distribution list. So how many were on the […]
[…] remains to be seen. Notes 1 < www.innocent.org.uk > 2 Don Hale, Town Without Pity, (London: Century, 2002), pp.196-7. 3 His story is being made into a BBC TV drama for February/March 2004 called ‘In denial of murder’. 4 < www.pca.gov.uk/investig/others.htm > 5 The new Code of Conduct (Schedule 1 of the Police (Conduct) […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Heathfield show no scramble by Deere and Hanbury. Again, base records disagree with the personal log books of pilots. In an interview with McRoberts for a 1984 BBC documentary, Al Deere talked about the scramble, by referring to his log book and suggesting the reason he failed to kill the 110 was that the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
