[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] politic forces would emerge on top once Saddam was removed.’ In ‘Blair was warned of looming disaster in Iraq’, in The Daily Telegraph, John Ware trailed his BBC TV programmes on the subject and his opening sentence included this: ‘the former prime minister was told repeatedly about America’s lack of planning for peace and […]
[…] net result may have been to omit words or qualifying statements or to present as certainties matters which were only probabilities misleading, though not, as the BBC, asserted, mendacious’ (p. 76) I leave it to the reader to consider the distinction between misleading and mendacious. This view is only of interest if the […]
[…] Awards.For more recent views on the death of Dr. Kelly see Paul Brandon et al, ‘The death of David Kelly and the “sexed up” WMD report: was BBC Andrew Gilligan’s original source a senior member of Her Majesty’s Government?’ at . ‘The record on CURVEBALL: declassified documents and key participants show the importance of […]
[…] congressmen. Chairing the relevant committee in Congress, Phil Gramm was among the leading beneficiaries. His wife, Wendy Gramm, had retired as head of the regulatory body governing futures trading in commodities and became head of Enron’s audit committee. She had a relatively small salary but rather large stock options.. BBC News, Friday, November 5, 1999
[…] Blunt’s memoirs are apparently safely locked up in the British Library along with the Magna Carta. Out this year is Dear Anthony by American John Costello and BBC researcher Cherry Hughes. Hughes, who has spent three years researching the book, says “He was a lot more important than has so far been admitted. It’s […]
[…] documentary The Power of Nightmares. His remarks were nowhere to be seen or heard when BBC1 broadcast highlights of the ceremony later that evening. (Anon., ‘Row as BBC cuts Bafta speech’, The Guardian 18 April 2005) These include former Tory Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind (non executive Chairman); ex-CIA operative, Jerry […]
