[…] Seasoned non-spook diplomats were always annoyed some spook analysis was based on recycling overseas newspaper articles (open source). The modern equivalent is mining the net. See also BBC Ten O clock News, ‘Online Jihadism’, 25 October 2006 BAA rather ruined the airport safety message with point 2 of its Important Information to travellers, reading: […]
[…] sensitive.’ His notes include allegations of corrupt behaviour by Councillor Frank McGrath, deputy Labour leader of Preston Council. He noted his press contacts as Andrew Jennings of BBC and Roger Ratcliffe of Sunday Times. . 1984 Murrin reported meeting Tom Cato, a Tory businessman from Fleetwood, who was a client of Chris More’s detective […]
[…] financial civil service with the current crisis? I doubt it. But there are odd flickers of rethinking going on within the almost brain-dead NuLab. Interviewed on the BBC, Foreign Secretary David Milliband en passant referred to manufacturing being twice the size of the financial sector – something no NuLab minister would have said or […]
[…] anti-Soviet propaganda and espionage campaign into other European countries. A direct invitation to that is being issued by BIS agents through publications and by the radio corporation BBC. My attention in this case was caught by an article published in the London newspaper Financial Times where on one hand conclusions are drawn concerning the […]
[…] a bad few months for the British media’s relationship with the psy-ops boys in SIS. First the BBC’s David Shukman fronted a piece apparently planted on the BBC by them which claimed that an African company Oryx was a source of funds for al-Qaeda. Oops! Name confusion. Cue large legal action by Oryx.(4) Or […]
[…] own merits “According to the UN, opium production peaked in 2004 to near record levels of 4,200 metric tonnes – nearly 90% of the world market” ( BBC News, 4/26/05, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4487433.stm). The former dominance of the Burma drug trade by the Taiwan-based Guomindang (GMD) has now been replaced in press accounts by the control […]
[…] miss five years earlier. Only the veteran journalist Alastair Cooke gave the 1998 crisis any serious discussion in two editions of his ‘Letter from America’, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 15 June and 11 August this year. The story is instructive on two levels. First because it suggests that it may be wrong […]
[…] that is Field Marshall Montogmery of Alamein, the commander of the Eighth Army during the Second World War. From 1931 to 1947 he was employed by the BBC in Northern Ireland in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). From 1952-71 he was a member […]
[…] Office-funded) adjunct to their ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ initiatives. The board includes: Princess Anne, Lords Brittan, Carr, Hunt and Merlyn-Rees, Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy (Kingfisher plc), Michael Hastings ( BBC), Nathaniel Sloane (Accenture), Matt Baggott (Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police), Liz Wicksteed (Home Office) and Sir Stanley Kalms (Treasurer of the Conservative Party).(7) Demos brought […]
[…] Campbell and his people in the CIC preparing the second ‘intelligence-based dossier’ which was endorsed by Colin Powell at the UN. On 5 February 2003 Andrew Gilligan, BBC Defence Correspondent, and formerly at the Sunday Telegraph, announced that he had received a leaked document from Defence Intelligence staff – i.e. the military – which […]
