Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984 Policing The Miners Up to May 30th. These are only brief references to the major elements. Magistrates setting restrictive bail conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for […]
Dr. David Kelly The death of Dr David Kelly refuses to go away. Two groups of medical experts have expressed doubts about the suicide verdict. The International Toxicology Advisory Group have queried the conclusion that Kelly swallowed at least 20 co-proxamol tablets, which contributed to his death; (1) and a group of surgeons wrote to […]
[…] to incinerate every last surviving particle of nerve agent. The best approach for Mr. Hambling, as for Mr. Hollick , is to approach Tim Sebastian, the former BBC Correspondent who investigated Black Cat, and to also speak with the Countess of Mar. Tim Sebastian confirmed to me in a telephone call that he had […]
[…] hard to think of anyone with a better motive or a stronger track record in Cold War and ‘war on terror’ disinformation. Wolfowitz, New Labour and the BBC On June 10 1997, shortly after New Labour was elected, Paul Wolfowitz was special guest at a party thrown by the British Ambassador in Washington, Sir […]
[…] of the inability of Labour and Democratic politicians to look reality in the face. Tunes and pipers Phil Chamberlain alerted me the reference in the blog of BBC Chief Political Correspondent Nick Robinson to Gordon Brown reading Frances Stonor Saunders’ Who Paid The Piper?, her long account of the CIA’s ‘cultural war’ in the […]
[…] also points out that ‘chroniclers of the New Labour government as well as biographers of the Prime Minister have effectively ignored Rupert Murdoch’. Jon Sopel of the BBC never mentioned him in his 1995 Blair biog; in 550 pages on New Labour, The Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley gave Murdoch three name checks; and John Rentoul […]
[…] by the Vatican to shore up the Italian state; and a suggestion that John Connally is linked to Mafia figures. (SD) 22. Two large articles by ex- BBC Journalist Tom Bower on Klaus Barbie and his links with US intelligence. (ST 3rd July, IHT 6th July, 1983). The articles are similar, though the IHT […]
[…] the essays on the workings of the media and state propaganda; and of those the most interesting pieces to me are by the journalists: Tim Llewellyn, former BBC reporter, on how the corporation persuades itself that it isn’t pro-Israeli; Yvonne Ridley on waking-up to the reality of what the major media was doing; and […]
[…] Spending Review indicated that, if there is money to spare, it would go to the security and intelligence services and into soft power arrangements (such as the BBC Arabic and Farsi broadcast channels) and not into the sort of military resource that could cope with more than one military intervention at a time. The […]
[…] leads a campaign to join the euro (via two year membership of the ERM) with the great and the good, the CBI, the big multi-nationals and the BBC and ITV. This succeeds narrowly and the UK duly enters the ERM – at around 3 D-marks to the pound – too high for the manufacturing […]
