Paul Todd, Jonathan Bloch, and Patrick Fitzgerald London: Zedbooks, 2009, £14.99, p/b, £39.95 h/b This book is published as the debate rages in America about whether or not the activities of the Bush regime, specifically the torture of various combat detainees and suspects rendered from various parts of the world, should be subject to […]
[…] any normal sense of that term, and have largely exploited their powerful positions at the expense of employees and shareholders as well as the Revenue. As a BBC journalist Lansley knows from experience how much of the corporation’s licence fee for programme making is diverted into the pockets of a handful of big-name presenters, […]
[…] Kinnock’s Making Our Way (Blackwell, Oxford, 1986). Bryan Gould, Goodbye To All That, (Macmillan, London, 1995) p. 202 Gould p. 205. Eatwell is now Lord Eatwell. Duckworth/ BBC, 1982 See note 24 above Gould p. 209 This is discussed below. To my knowledge neither has explained this change and I am unable to date […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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.() Another was […]
