[…] (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, fatuously headlined ‘The Ukrainian TV show that predicted the future’. or . 2 1 Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of […]
[…] and what their leader was thinking. ‘Even during the election, Clegg had been moving on the issue – but without telling the electorate. He later told the BBC that he had changed his view during the general election: “Remember between March and the actual general election, a financial earthquake occurred on our European doorstep.” […]
[PDF file]: […] army raid on the Golden Temple ended in disaster’ at . Those who have heard any of the general news reports filed by Mark Tully, on either BBC Radio 4 or the World service, will know that he is a measured and peaceful man. In his Telegraph piece, however, one can feel the huge […]
[PDF file]: […] assessment of the subversive influence in the media in the 1970s: ‘There have been virtually no instances of subversion in the presentation of new bulletins by the BBC or the I B A companies. The reasons no doubt lies in the careful selection of key personnel by management….’ (p. 663, emphasis added) But he […]
[PDF file]: […] part of the St James’s Palace Group. A less direct connection is through Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, who married the grandson of Sigmund Freud, Matthew in 2001. ( BBC 2001) Matthew Freud is the multimillionaire owner of PR company Freud Communications (Harris 2008) and, aside from being Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law, British Sky Broadcasting is one […]
[PDF file]: […] power – and its equally complex internal politics – are boiled down to a dumb story about sex and satanism. Forget the Palestinians On 13 August the BBC News carried the story of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations.27 There was much related talk about how good […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] N evertheless and in spite of ongoing reputational damage, SIS continues to run an adept stand-alone PR campaign. Doubtless coincidentally, it was bookended this year by two BBC radio programmes: Tom Mangold’s Ship of Spies broadcast on the BBC World Service in February 2011 and Andrew Marr’s Start the week discussion with Gordon Corera, […]
[PDF file]: […] to Bloody Sunday, in as much as the British state’s colonial psy-ops techniques, introduced into Northern Ireland after the shootings helped provoke a kind of insurgency, the BBC broadcast on 22 March a radio documentary, ‘The spin war in Northern Ireland’ about the British state’s psychological operations in Northern Ireland. This may still be […]
[PDF file]: […] workers and the lower middle-class of big cities’ is now overtaking support from the old industrial working-class. See Mason, ‘After Corbynism: Where next for Labour?’ . 7 BBC Reality Check Team, ‘How Many Labour Supporters Voted Leave?’ BBC News, 29 April 2019, . 8 (where public spending accounts for 56 per cent of the […]
