The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

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[PDF file]: […] Hille, working on a TV documentary entitled The Appalling Truth, took the file abroad for safety. New research There were many setbacks. The late Roy McHardy of BBC Scotland found a Scottish doctor who had been asked by Churchill to check again for First World War bullet wound scars on the chest of the […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

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[PDF file]: […] basis: it supported the Iraq war that Corbyn strongly opposed.35 Both books also offer little detail on the contribution of the broadcasting media to the ‘crisis’. The BBC was consistently critical of Corbyn. One of the worst examples was the 2019 BBC TV Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Antisemitic?’. It opened with an unidentified former […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

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[PDF file]: […] contracts with private UK security companies rose from £12.6m in 2003 to £48.9m in 2012, according to official figures.’9 One of the memorable jokes from the 1980s BBC comedy ‘Yes Minister’ is along the lines of, ‘If those are the official figures, then you can imagine just how much it really is!’ British dominance […]

Sources

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[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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] has reached issue 167.16 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.17 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

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[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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] has reached issue 167.3 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.4 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

View from the bridge

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[…] has reached issue 167.3 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.4 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, ‘BBC Middle East […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[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 […]

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