[PDF file]: […] have previously been released by the National Archives.9 Hess and the Doppleganger Hess Andrew Rosthorn’s piece on Rudolf Hess in the current issue10 makes mention of the BBC Timewatch episode ‘Hess: The Edge of Conspiracy’. The programme was fronted by the eternally smug Professor Christopher Andrew – he who was chosen by MI5 to […]
[…] between the country as it actually is and as it is represented in Westminster.17 If Butler and McTeague are political commentators, Libby Purves is not. Times columnist, BBC presenter for many years, Purves is the personification of the middle-of-the-road, mainstream, apolitical (but conservative) journalist.18 But things are now so bad even Purves was moved […]
[PDF file]: […] Secretary and then as Foreign Office minister:8 or 7 Ed Balls, Lord Pickles of Brentwood and Ongar, former head of NHS Test and Trace Baroness Dido Harding, BBC TV presenter Natasha Kaplinsky and convicted Guinness fraudster Gerald Ronson are among the members of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. or Lord Triesman is probably better […]
The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. […]
[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail.39 Erstwhile token lefty on the BBC, Paul Mason has a similar reaction in his review of a film on this subject, a screening of which was planned for the Glastonbury festival but […]
[PDF file]: President Putin and Sochi 2014 PR Corinne Souza I was torn between not watching the opening ceremony of Sochi 2014 because of Russia’s deplorable gay and civil rights record and watching because all international relations PRs monitor big set piece national statements – particularly those of important nations such as Russia. An opening ceremony is […]
[PDF file]: […] Way (Blackwell, Oxford, 1986). 25 Bryan Gould, Goodbye To All That, (Macmillan, London, 1995) p. 202. 26 Gould p. 205. Eatwell is now Lord Eatwell. 27 Duckworth/ BBC, 1982 28 See note 24 above. 9 The day before the document was due to go to the printer, Gould was asked to meet a delegation […]
[PDF file]: […] said once Jim and I returned to London, I would need to ‘settle my account’ before I received the money. MI6 expected me to sit in a BBC news television studio and claim The Cook Report story was a hoax. It would be worldwide breaking news. I could see it now. Exposing The Cook […]
[PDF file]: […] read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words I’d heard on the BBC were there. But so was her description of how as a 21-year-old Oxford student the then Shirley Catlin was funded by the US government to take […]
[PDF file]: […] one thing we can be certain: it was Dennis Robertson who moved Polly Peck funds from Britain to Cyprus.’ Postscript: a licence to kill? In 2009, the BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera 3 Elizabeth Forsyth says: ‘I must make one matter clear, I was instrumental in handing documentation which I had been given during […]
