[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[PDF file]: Cummings, Greensill and all that Robin Ramsay I watched the Dominic Cummings interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on the same day that the first report on the Lex Greensill affair became available on-line. Greensill was the fringe banker who hired former PM David Cameron – at around £29,000 a day – as a ‘consultant’.1 […]
[PDF file]: […] employed more than 30% of the work force, half had recorded a rise in unemployment in the previous six months.8 As I was writing this paragraph the BBC news announced at the beginning of August 2001, that the manufacturing sector of the British economy was officially in recession – in large part the victim […]
[PDF file]: […] interests of News International. What seems to have persuaded Murdoch to ditch him was the Tories’ readiness to take measures to inflict serious financial damage on the BBC by freezing the tv licence, weakening Ofcom and waving through the Murdochs’ takeover of BSkyB. It was not that Brown would have balked at such measures […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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. […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
