[…] < http://slink.com.com/slink?212215 > There is much more on this at < www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega2002.htm > 3 There is a selection of stories about masts in the UK on the BBC web site at < http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=newsifs&tab= news&q=mobile+masts&x=13&y=8 > 4 Charles, Loomis, Shyl et al, ‘Electromagnetic Fields, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and Prostate Cancer Mortality in Electric Utility Workers’ American […]
[…] climaxed with the ‘Maggie’s Militants’ edition of the BBC’s flagship documentary programme, Panorama, in 1984, based on Searchlight’s research, which led to successful legal action against the BBC. As it turned out, the significant infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s ‘bridge’ between the Tory right and the […]
[…] CHRONICLE 35-46 DIR. PRACTICAL JOURNALISM LONDON UNIVERSITY 39-40 DEPUTY DIR. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION: SET UP GLOBE NEWS AGENCY 41-42 REP. OF HULTON PRESS IN SOUTH AMERICA 42-48 BBC LATIN AMERICAN SERVICE, CHMN. NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS LTD. AUTHOR COLES, S.J.W. ‘JACK’ IRD 40-50’S HEAD OF STAR NEWS AGENCY PAKISTAN -60’S INFORMATION OFFICE CRO […]
A small section of this appeared in Lobster 12. Although this is incomplete and under researched, we thought it worth putting out now. The origins of IRD 1947 saw the creation of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, […]
[…] and will only act when national courts are unable or unwilling to investigate or prosecute. Ireland Panorama – A Licence to Murder Two-part documentary broadcast by the BBC June 19 and 23 2002 ‘reveals the extent to which some members of the British Intelligence services colluded with – and even tried to direct – […]
Ken Livingstone MP, has been putting dozens and dozens of questions to our state about the cases and allegations of Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, those bits of the secret state you are allowed to ask questions about, Northern Ireland, psy ops and so on. Putting down such questions is a fairly dispiriting business. Some […]
[…] In Britain antipathy to Israel is not confined to radical Muslims and the ‘far left’. Rubinstein says: ‘One of the most egregious and dangerous examples is the BBC’, and he identifies two its reporters, Orla Guerin – ‘little better than an anti-Israeli propagandist’ – and Barbara Plett for particular criticism. John Pilger and former […]
[…] BBC2 in October/ November devoted to Special Branch accounts of their work against British ‘subversives’ in the 1970s and 80s. There was a rich irony about the BBC broadcasting the first two episodes while David Shayler was on trial. A group of Special Branch officers – assisted by the BBC – broke the Official […]
Are raw prawns pink? Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia’s most famous – and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order […]
[…] 1991 he had secured on tape, a confession by Ken Barrett that he killed Finucane. (7) That Barrett killed Finucane has been common knowledge only since a BBC Panorama programme in 2001. In contrast to Adair however, Jonty Brown claims that his efforts to secure a conviction against Barrett were blocked and that he […]
