[…] 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 […]
[…] Iraq as part of Britain’s ‘hearts and minds’ campaign: a sort of movie equivalent to British troops losing 9 – 3 to the Basrah football squad. ( BBC report following the fall of Basrah.) 4 The Times 7 April 2003. 5 The Observer, 12 January 2003. This is a wholly different conflict, albeit ripe […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more
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[…] Robertson of Port Ellen. Beams and motes A splendid riposte was handed to Robertson’s old chum, Denis MacShane, in the letters column of The Guardian. The former BBC reporter turned international trade union official and then Foreign Office minister, had taken issue with former Washington ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer. He claimed the man who […]
