[…] Royal Family) (28), and includes on its board Burke and a number of quango members. Its funding and support comes from BP, Glaxo, Lever Brothers, Shell, the BBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Tarmac, Sainsburys, Tesco, the privatised utilities, the DETR, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Prince’s Trust. Green Alliance people Membership […]
[…] RUSI June 1984 (Journal of Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies) The High Tech Military and Civilian Alliance Adrian Milne The Listener May 10th Based on BBC Horizon programme. Sketchy account of Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, and the military’s dominance of research in this country. Miscellany Information wanted on Peter Dally, Chairman […]
[…] the call) Minister of State for the Armed Forces. In November 1995, Soames had publicly claimed that the Princess was in ‘the advanced stages of paranoia’ (on BBC 2’s Newsnight) and said that she was pulling off ‘a very calculating and a very polished performance’ (Radio 4 Today programme) after her Panorama appearance. The […]
[…] the British High Commissioner in Bridgetown, specifically requested the dispatch of an SAS team to rescue Sir Paul Scoon, the Governor General of Grenada. A report on BBC television’s ‘Newsnight’, a few days after the invasion, said that the SAS were close by but stood down when the Americans decided to invade. Interest is […]
[…] In January the 1962 files of the Public Records Office were opened. These included: GS Grenade, Hanratty, Police National Computer, bombing hostile tribes, exporting fissile material, and BBC defence plans, plus over 700 others. Full listings for 1993 openings £10, and £5 each year for 1989-92 from: Roger J Morgan, 15A Kensington Court Gardens, […]
[…] on State steel bodies and Director-General of the CBI from 1969-1976, was a deputy under-secretary at the Department of Economic Affairs from 1967-69; a member of the BBC advisory committee from.1964-67, and from then till 1975; on the Social Science Research Council from 1965-69; and on the National Economic Development Council from 1969-76. A […]
[…] seems vaery like a typically dated, crude attempt at ineffective Anglo-US mind control: ‘the Allies’ are equally adept at AP, albeit of a different type. ‘This Week’, BBC TV, 23 September 2004. 15 Financial Terrorists: An example could be those known collectively as the Russian oil oligarchs, whose corruption is responsible for as much […]
[…] The Warren Report (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1964), p. 201. Mailer filmed interview in Robert Stone’s 85 minute documentary, Oswald’s Ghost. Most recently shown on BBC Four on 5 June 2007. Bugliosi seems not to be aware of this novelettish silliness. And on the subject of Mailer, did anyone ever get beyond […]
[…] Nonetheless this line is at the heart of both of the Bruce and Urban books. Urban is an interesting figure. A sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while […]
[…] Stormont. * * * The new Kincora inquiry will be chaired by a retired English circuit judge, William Hughes. When asked on ‘The World At One’ ( BBC Radio 4, 18th January 1984) if the inquiry would take evidence on the alleged activities of the intelligence agencies, James Prior, Northern Ireland Secretary of State, […]
