Tittle-tattle

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[PDF file]: […] ‘investigated’. She’s now in the Lords, too. As is former Truro Lib Dem MP Matthew Taylor. Retiring from the Commons at the general election he told the BBC on 10 April that Parliament was ‘spectacularly unsuccessful. I 2 89 Summer 2010 won’t miss it at all’. Lest we forget (1) The revealing Channel 4 […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] a one-sided struggle. The ‘yes’ campaign had unlimited funding, the support of the City of London, the large British companies, the British state, its broadcasting apparatus (the BBC) and almost all the rest of the media, as well as covert assistance from the CIA and IRD. The ‘no’ campaign was out-spent ten or fifteen […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was determined to clear my name and hoped for additional interest from journalists like David McKittrick. All was going well, with significant coverage, until McKittrick and a BBC journalist called John Ware wrote notorious articles on 2 September 1987 for the London Independent, containing proven falsehoods. They reinvigorated a smear, criticised by Duncan Campbell, […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

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[PDF file]: […] , or to the other five boys’ homes, and the circumstances which led up to the problems.’ 5 Moreover, when asked on The World at One ( BBC Radio 4, 18 January 1984) if the Inquiry would take evidence on the alleged activities of the Intelligence agencies, he replied that if there was any […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

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[PDF file]: […] really should be called the Conspiracy Theories and Democracy Project, because it is conspiracy theories and their apparent impact on democracy which they are concerned about. The BBC report on the launch of the project was titled ‘Are conspiracy theories destroying democracy?’;5 and one of the project’s three directors, Sir Richard Evans, began a […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG Nick Must In his book Manufacturing Terrorism,1 T. J. Coles mentions that ex-MI5 officer David Shayler has recently claimed that Ramadan Abedi (the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi) was the MI6 asset who had previous been identified solely with the cypher ‘Tunworth’. Shayler first mentioned Tunworth […]

The view from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Meeja news Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the German conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, did an interview with Russia Today1 in which, among other things, he said this. ‘Germany is still a kind of a colony of the United States, you’ll see that in many points; like […]

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[…] This would have been a fairly routine development in other politically-sensitive cases. Avakov kept the case 33 Avakov confers with SBU chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko (Credit: Vadim Chuprina) BBC News, 26 April 2014. See . Ukrainian Pravda, 4 July 2014. See (source in Ukrainian). Kernes had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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[…] 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 […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

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[PDF file]: […] 1974. However, 1976 saw Harold Wilson’s resignation but the advancement to PM of James Callaghan – who immediately lost Labour’s tiny majority in the Commons. See ‘ BBC on this day: 5th April, 1976’ at . 2 1 deficit and a pound that was in danger of falling too far against the dollar.3 The […]

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