[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* Stolen, not shared ‘MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes’ was a headline from BBC News online in late April.1 The head of the Security Service, Ken McCallum,2 was quoted from a piece he had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We must […]
[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail. 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] NUM by the TUC, most individual member unions and the Labour Party. The Ridley Plan is Lauria’s second omission. *new* More JFK nonsense History Extra is a BBC website. In early February it put up Danny Bird’s ‘Who was behind JFK’s assassination? The real history that challenges the conspiracy’,6 as a come-on for a […]
[PDF file]: […] the great credit boom of 1972/3, which triggered inflation, at . 8 9 See, for example, . or 10 Not to be confused with the host of BBC TV’s Masterchef. This Torode was a staffer at the Guardian. He left Labour, joined the Social Democratic Party and stood as an SDP candidate in the […]
[PDF file]: […] of social and economic liberalism, and they reproduce themselves across the generations, with the children moving seamlessly from (usually) private school to university, to political intern/private office/journalism/ BBC, to think tanks like Reform, Policy Exchange or the Centre for Policy Studies, or to polling organisations like YouGov, and thence to Parliament. If they want […]
[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail. 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]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How 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. Yet we have recently learned that […]
[PDF file]: […] a base in Crete ended in ignominious defeat on 1 June with 23,000 UK troops killed or captured and 12 ships sunk.) See above footnote 49. The BBC History Magazine May 2001 (cited in Padfield) quotes a Margaret Baird, wife of the farmer who owned the land where Hess crashed: ‘the police was ordered […]
[PDF file]: […] and Jonathan Powell, who had the final editing rights on the notorious ‘dodgy dossier’. Hence the great row about ‘sexing-up’ which led to the upheaval at the BBC and the big fight with the government – a fight in which, as Lord Hutton showed us, the claim that the estimates had been ‘sexed-up’ was […]
