[PDF file]: […] the Falklands War) and its determination to protect British culture and ‘character’ from ‘alien’ influences, including mass immigration. This nationalist discourse has featured increasingly significantly in Party propaganda ever since William Hague succeeded John Major as leader in 1997 and has been central to its pitch to the electorate in both the 2017 and […]
[PDF file]: […] elsewhere. Grange, now dead, subsequently resigned his post while under investigation for failing to investigate a judge accused 1 Rose later spread some of the Iraq War propaganda and then tried to rehabilitate himself with an article in the New Statesman openly admitting that he had for years been open to ‘manipulation’ by security […]
[…] not gunmen at all, but innocent bystanders’. (p. 194) And that is Frank Kitson’s account of the Bloody Sunday massacre! He still complains about how the ‘republican propaganda machine’ succeeded in ‘making most of the Catholic population of Belfast think that I was a wicked fellow’. (p. 189) Colonel Wilford was awarded the OBE […]
Contents The World That Never Was. A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 2010. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander A s the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into […]
[PDF file]: […] contrary to the beliefs of many on the left, were a Several – and possibly all – of the authors have been associated with the cluster of propaganda outfits based at 55 Tufton Street in London. There is a very nice and informative portrait of these groups in a short film at . 1 […]
[…] took this seriously. The claim is true in one profound but unstated sense: the Conservatives will continue to harass those who are not employed. Thirty years of propaganda against those dependent upon the state has resulted in a public climate hostile to almost all those claiming benefits: the ‘deserving poor’ category has now shrunk […]
[PDF file]: […] Its support for the CIA dated back to before the Bay of Pigs invasion, when it created another CIA front, the Cuban Freedom Committee, as an anti-Castro propaganda operation. Bennett, the son of Republican Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah, a prominent Mormon, was selected by Maheu’s successors to replace O’Brien at the Hughes […]
[…] rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis is generally correct (we might argue about ‘rogue […]
[PDF file]: […] as Patel is concerned, this clearly showed that ‘the military brass is turning woke’. This is why the US ended up with ‘a military brimming with left-wing propaganda’ that identified climate change as the major threat confronting the USA: ‘That’s right. Not terrorism. Not China. Under President Biden, the military’s primary mission is to […]
[PDF file]: […] on the BBC News website at . It included this: ‘There have long been claims that elements in the Army and British government were behind a widespread propaganda campaign throughout the early 1970s mostly aimed at undermining the IRA.’ Nearly 30 years after this story was first discussed, when we know a great deal […]
