[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 […]
[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 […]
The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia….. In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal […]
[PDF file]: […] to cut to describing an afternoon tea in Devon, taken by Peter Gillman and his wife Leni11 as guests of Celia Adams, widow of Michael Adams, a BBC and Guardian Middle East correspondent. Adams had been detained in Egypt with David Holden during the 1956 Suez Crisis. They were friends in Beirut later. Celia […]
[PDF file]: […] See . 29 30 12 Iraq invasion: tenth anniversary Monday 18 March was quite a day for those of us against the invasion of Iraq. On the BBC News Website, Peter Taylor conveyed the central gist of his programme later that night on Panorama about the intelligence failures which led the leadership of the […]
[…] to cut to describing an afternoon tea in Devon, taken by Peter Gillman and his wife Leni11 as guests of Celia Adams, widow of Michael Adams, a BBC and Guardian Middle East correspondent. Adams had been detained in Egypt with David Holden during the 1956 Suez Crisis. They were friends in Beirut later. Celia […]
[PDF file]: […] time) and Albania. He was, apparently, the model for the traitor Bill Haydon in John Le Carre’s 1974 novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Publicity for a two-part BBC 2 documentary about Philby broadcast in April 2014 (based on Ben Macintyre’s A Spy Among Friends)3 described him as ‘a fanatic and a ruthless killer who […]
[…] has reached issue 167.37 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.38 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]
[…] has reached issue 167.37 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro-Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.38 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]
[PDF file]: […] Rahman had admitted in prison he would have carried out the attack had he been able to.’17 (emphasis added ) Let us examine Rahman’s connections and abilities. BBC news reported18 how the ‘plot’ was ‘foiled’ by the security services and stated: ‘Last summer Rahman was homeless in London after falling out with both his […]
