[PDF file]: […] for his homespun homilies. I was aware that Friedman’s ideas were in the air but had neither read nor seen him; and, like the politicians in the BBC studio, I was astonished: why was this idiot being taken seriously? At this distance the interesting historical question is: how and why did the editors of […]
[PDF file]: […] of 40 years! The shitshow continues Regular perusers of this column may recall my item from Lobster 78 on facial recognition.17 The 6th August report on the BBC news website that ‘Facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man’18 informs us that the shitshow continues. Presumably, we are supposed to be comforted by the […]
[PDF file]: […] to creating a ‘Weishauptian world rule’.6 0 The historical record is less convincing. Despite their support for a number of geopolitical 57 ‘Iraq war illegal, says Annan’, BBC News, 16 August 2004. 58 Philippe Sands, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, (London: Allen Lane, 2005), p. 203; and Richard […]
[PDF file]: […] that, on the preponderance of evidence, Olaf Neitsch’s father was indeed a Stasi officer, even though that Stasi officer might not have been Herbert Neitsch. 10 11 BBC News, 15 January 2017. See . An academic study has analysed the degree of nepotism in the Stasi’s Karl-Marx-Stadt district office, where the above-mentioned Herbert Neitsch […]
[PDF file]: […] four days before Hess’s, so we still rely on his memory that Hess used this plane. We are not told if either plane was flown later. This BBC Timewatch documentary ‘Hess: an Edge Of Conspiracy’ is interesting and fair. It is available on YouTube and also reviews the speech, photographic and hand-writing evidence supporting […]
[…] 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]: […] McEnany, For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond (Saint Petersburg ; Liberatio Protocol, 2021), 1 1 Jon Sopel, the BBC correspondent, reported this episode, ‘innocent protestors exercising their First Amendment rights . . . were tear-gassed and rubber-bulleted out of the way’ for a ‘photo-op pure […]
[PDF file]: […] – no evidence could be found that Smith had ever been arrested with a car boot full of sex magazines. After Danczuk first outed Smith (in 2012), BBC Newsnight ran a lengthy piece on the case. Careful scrutiny indicated that those making claims against Smith seemed to be alleging physical mistreatment (being knocked around, […]
[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 […]
