[…] embassy-Levy link was not mentioned by Jon Sopel, the Jewish early biographer of Blair16 who went on to become the BBC’s North America editor before joining former BBC Newsnight presenter Emma Maitlis at LBC’s show The News Agents. One of the other Jewish journalism figures holding what Burg called ‘stunningly powerful positions and clout’ […]
[PDF file]: Gone but not forgotten . . . UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others Jon Sopel BBC Books, 2021, £20.00, h/b The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism, and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus, And Why aren’t We Done With Him Yet? S V Date […]
[PDF file]: […] associate at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology). They link the Savile Scandal – ‘the most prominent chapter in recent UK cultural history, in which the former BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile is alleged to have sexually abused hundreds of children over the past fifty years’ – with the satanic ritual abuse scandal ‘which swept […]
[…] of anti-semitism through the world’s institutions, see the essay by Alison Weir.18 * new * All our yesterdays A reader asked me if I knew why the BBC had allowed a former employee, Paul Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of Lynn Parramore, ‘Noam Chomsky on […]
[…] a cover for the CIA. (Never mind the rumours that World Vision itself provides cover for the CIA.) The Cambridge phone call redux Anthony Frewin reports: The BBC News website carried a story on 4 December 2017 that the BBC had made a Freedom of Information request to the Cambridge Police asking them to […]
[…] Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy Matthew Alford London: Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay O n the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here’s Melanie Phillips: ‘With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of […]
[PDF file]: […] . 23 24 See . To no-one’s surprise this tweak now classifies as ‘fake news’ a great of left-wing writing. See, for example, . 25 7 The BBC News website carried a story on 4 December 2017 that the BBC had made a Freedom of Information request to the Cambridge Police asking them to […]
[PDF file]: […] in the world, down 10 points from April 2019’. Meanwhile, 41% said ‘the UK should ‘US election 2020: The other 1,214 candidates running for president’ from the BBC News website at . 13 See the financial details for the ‘Kanye 2020 Committee’ on the Federal Election Commission website at . 14 See, e.g., ‘Talked […]
[PDF file]: […] this limited output was immensely popular, with up to 4 million listeners tuning in every night to Radio Luxembourg rather than to the immensely staid and Reithian BBC Home Service. To satisfy UK demand for more broadcasting of this type Plugge also ran a smaller operation, Radio Normandy, a small station licensed by the […]
[PDF file]: […] about the falsification of intelligence relating to Iraqi WMD, but whose death ended up being used instead as a vehicle for the Blair government to attack the BBC, who had reported the leak. Among the documents posted on the inquiry’s website was a bizarre and cryptic document concerning child abuse, the presence of which […]
