[PDF file]: Murdoch: wounded but not dead Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power David McKnight Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2012 W hat has been Rupert Murdoch’s response to ‘Hackgate’? He has made clear his willingness to throw overboard as many people, reporters and executives, as are necessary in order to protect his son, James. He has […]
[PDF file]: ‘We’re doomed!’ A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks Nick Must The broadcasting by the BBC during the Christmas period 2015 of a comedy drama based around the creation of the Dad’s Army television series, reminded me of how the Home Guard were used during World War II as the cover for […]
[PDF file]: […] bullshit basket he calls for some global action which he knows will never take place but which he thinks sounds impressive. His latest was reported on the BBC News website: he wants a ‘global fund for education’.6 No doubt this will be next on the list after the new global financial system he wants […]
[PDF file]: MI5 speaks to the nation! Nick Must ‘How MI5 is adapting to fight coronavirus’1 was the headline on a BBC news online piece by Gordon Corera. In relation to that potential change in working practices, it quoted soon-to-depart MI5 chief, Sir Andrew Parker, thus: ‘You’ll understand if I don’t go into exactly the ways […]
[…] Together came from the Israel lobby in the UK. I wonder why. Not a million miles from which . . . as far as I can see BBC News, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and The Times have not reported the arrest of Richard Medhurst and Sara Wilkinson under anti–terrorism legislation for their reporting […]
[PDF file]: […] (p. 27) Many of these New Labour MPs who had been parachuted into their safe seats by the party machine returned to Westminster after the 2015 This BBC documentary made at the time of the 2017 general election gives a flavour of the attitudes of leading figures in the Parliamentary Labour Party at the […]
[PDF file]: […] was necessary to let him make friendly things (sic) to the manufacturing people.’ 12 (emphasis added) Mrs Thatcher also bought this line. In his memoir, the former BBC political correspondent, John Cole, describes asking Mrs Thatcher for an example of how this ‘service’ or ‘post-industrial economy’ would work: ‘She cited an entrepreneur she had […]
[PDF file]: […] a localised radiation emergency in mind. There is no mention of a ‘wartime’ emergency. It’s as if the possibility of such an emergency no longer exists. The BBC reported that nuclear war is no longer on the UK’s ‘National Risk Register’6 – although the likelihood of a nuclear bomb being detonated by a terrorist […]
[PDF file]: […] for the British state. He writes: I loved and was thankful for the monarchy, Parliament, the army, the rule of law, the NHS, the Foreign Office, the BBC and everything that the United Kingdom stood for. I considered liberal capitalism the best system of economics the world has had. I was a conventional Conservative. […]
[PDF file]: […] fine imposed and the expenses incurred by the Telegraph dealing with the court case. Harebrained? ‘Page 8’ was a film written and directed by David Hare on BBC 2 on 28 August 2011, in which Bill Nighy played a suave, sophisticated senior MI5 officer who saves the Service from being being destroyed in a […]
