Murder in Cairo

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[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[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 […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] 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 […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

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[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, […]

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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 […]

The Lexit delusion

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[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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

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[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 […]

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