[…] fact that there has been more than a little victim-shaming – sometimes subtle, other times not so. Take, for example, a piece by Gordon Corera for the BBC in 2021, detailing information on U.S. diplomats who were suing their government employer.1 Corera states that ‘members of the public, some with mental health issues, approach […]
[PDF file]: […] the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his account of trying to investigate Kincora over the years: meeting brick walls to begin with; fragments of […]
[…] the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his account of trying to investigate Kincora over the years: meeting brick walls to begin with; fragments of […]
[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Doppelgangers Hillary Clinton’s apparent fainting spell during the 9/11 commemoration in September led to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away […]
[PDF file]: […] two things about me, says FBI interrogator’, CNN Opinion. 21 March 2023, at or . 36 Gordon Corera, ‘How the search for Iraq’s secret weapons fell apart’, BBC News, 21 March 2023, at . 37 David Frum, ‘The Iraq War reconsidered’, The Atlantic, 13 March 2023 at or . 38 See Bergen (note 35). […]
[…] the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his account of trying to investigate Kincora over the years: meeting brick walls to begin with; fragments of […]
[PDF file]: […] was prompted to look at it for the first time in a while by seeing the headline on Gosling’s latest email collection: ‘Wife-Killer Prince Charles Flexes Orwellian BBC Mind-Control Muscle, Eyes Global Great Reset & Peace Antichrist Roles’. Yesterday’s men Two of yesterday’s men, Conservative MPs Philip Hammond, former Chancellor the Exchequer, and Alan […]
[PDF file]: […] of 40 years! The shitshow continues Regular perusers of this column may recall my item from Lobster 78 on facial recognition.17 The 6th August report on the BBC news website that ‘Facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man’18 informs us that the shitshow continues. Presumably, we are supposed to be comforted by the […]
[PDF file]: […] for his homespun homilies. I was aware that Friedman’s ideas were in the air but had neither read nor seen him; and, like the politicians in the BBC studio, I was astonished: why was this idiot being taken seriously? At this distance the interesting historical question is: how and why did the editors of […]
[PDF file]: […] four days before Hess’s, so we still rely on his memory that Hess used this plane. We are not told if either plane was flown later. This BBC Timewatch documentary ‘Hess: an Edge Of Conspiracy’ is interesting and fair. It is available on YouTube and also reviews the speech, photographic and hand-writing evidence supporting […]
