The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] . 15 See or . 16 17 Listed at . 18 6 Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of BBC staff.19 I have no idea, I replied. The story on the BBC News website is worth reading – if only for the strong whiff of ‘the […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

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[PDF file]: […] Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS Gavin Mortimer London: Constable, 2022, £25, h/b John Newsinger On Sunday 30 October, the BBC broadcast the first episode of its much trumpeted drama series, SAS Rogue Heroes, with a screenplay by Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders fame. The six part […]

What if…

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[PDF file]: […] not win the general election of 1979. Michael Morton contacted me to let me know such speculation had already been done by Andrew Marr in 1993 on BBC television; and that the scenarios discussed by Marr and various interviewees had originally been published in his magazine Alternate Worlds in January 1995.2 Very kindly, Michael […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] US plans for military aggression 29 ‘Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The US Tilts Toward Iraq, 1980-1984’, National Security Archive, Washington, 25 February 2003, at . 30 BBC, On This Day, ‘US Warship Shoots Down Iranian Airliner’, July 3, 1988. 31 BBC, On This Day, ‘Thousands Die in Gas Attack’, 16 March 1988. Speaking […]

The two Goulds

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[…] domestic manufacturing economy. Neil Kinnock, party leader after 1983, chose as his economic advisor the Cambridge economist John Eatwell. In 1982 Eatwell had written and fronted a BBC TV series, 1 In most other European countries what we might call the Heathite Conservatives and the centre-right of the Labour Party would have long since […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the queen (sic) 71 72 73 This first appeared here: . 74 23 would delay responding, thereby stalling Whitlam. It will be interesting to see if the BBC news returns to this subject now it has been revived. They ran a slightly softer version of the story 2020 when the book was first published.75 […]

Beyond Business by John Browne

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[PDF file]: […] from the Enron debacle’.4 Jeffrey Skilling, the president of Enron, currently serving a 24 year jail sentence, is a former McKinsey partner. McKinsey advised Railtrack and the BBC on how to cut costs.5 After he left the BBC, Lord Birt (another Baron!) went to work for them. Another McKinsey man was Adair Turner (yet […]

The Clandestine Caucus

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[PDF file]: […] 1949, worth over £1,800,000.49 In the first six months of 1949 Aims claims to have had 41 radio broadcasts on the Home or Light programmes of the BBC; and just before the election of 1950 in January, 362 magazines and newspapers gave 11,269 column inches to Aims-inspired stories. Aims magazine, The Voice of Industry, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] people in British politics. Commenting on Guilty Men, he rebuts a position that Oborne and Weaver do not hold: namely that there was a conspiracy within the BBC, and offers an insider’s view that is exactly that of the authors: ‘Oborne seems to imply that there was a covert plot within the top echelons […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

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[PDF file]: […] deleted, archive only). 31 Tretetsky was attacked on 16 March and died in hospital 10 days later. Segodnya, 28 March 2014. See (source in Russian). 32 33 BBC News, 26 April 2014. See . Ukrainian Pravda, 4 July 2014. See (source in Ukrainian). Kernes had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his […]

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