[…] Atlanticist freemasonry in 1987. BAP was not just a rite of passage for Baroness Scotland. She continues to serve on the UK advisory board with her old BBC pal James Naughtie and Mike Maclay, the man from Hakluyt. The small irony she may have pondered as she flew west on behalf of the wealthy […]
[…] general council for much of that period; Sir John Boyd, general secretary of the AUEW from 1975-82, also on the TUC general council, a governor of the BBC and a director of British Steel; Terry Casey, general secretary of the teachers’ union NAS/UWT and vice-president of the pro-NATO teachers’ union international; Lord Collinson, general […]
[…] April.(2) No newspaper reported his dramatic revelations about the way the Blair government had changed policy to permit the use of intelligence material gained by torture. The BBC provided the only report I could see. The Quick and the dead Thanks to Craig Murray,(3) I twigged why Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick might have been […]
[…] 1st November 2002 on the occasion of her resignation: ‘I feel strongly that minimum standards of accountability and probity have not been upheld by some leading officers and members of the executive.’ According to the Tribune article, Ms Davis was referring to ‘allegations of financial malpractice’. 4 Any Questions, BBC Radio 4, 25 October 2002
Paul Todd, Jonathan Bloch, and Patrick Fitzgerald London: Zedbooks, 2009, £14.99, p/b, £39.95 h/b This book is published as the debate rages in America about whether or not the activities of the Bush regime, specifically the torture of various combat detainees and suspects rendered from various parts of the world, should be subject to […]
[…] any normal sense of that term, and have largely exploited their powerful positions at the expense of employees and shareholders as well as the Revenue. As a BBC journalist Lansley knows from experience how much of the corporation’s licence fee for programme making is diverted into the pockets of a handful of big-name presenters, […]
[…] Kinnock’s Making Our Way (Blackwell, Oxford, 1986). Bryan Gould, Goodbye To All That, (Macmillan, London, 1995) p. 202 Gould p. 205. Eatwell is now Lord Eatwell. Duckworth/ BBC, 1982 See note 24 above Gould p. 209 This is discussed below. To my knowledge neither has explained this change and I am unable to date […]
[…] role in first attempt to float the RUC package smearing Holroyd, explaining McKittrick’s previous use of Wallace as apparently reliable source, and John Ware’s role in the BBC Panorama ‘investigation’ of the Wright/Wallace/MI5 plots story. 21 September 1987. Wallace receives report of polygraph (lie detector) report done on him and his central allegations by […]
[…] little tip, with the notable exceptions of the Guardian and Channel Four News, the response of the media on mainland UK was pathetic, if hardly surprising. The BBC even got John Ware of all people, one of the co-authors of the notorious 1987 Independent smear-job on Wallace and Fred Holroyd, to give the first […]
[…] Trust, 2001) p. 841. 10 Lindsey Jenkins – see note 6 – p. 239. 11 British Management Data Foundation, ‘Document: A Letter to The Times’, Transcript of BBC Radio 4 programme broadcast on Thursday, 3 February 2000, (Stroud, Glos,: British Management Data Foundation) 12 Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War, 1948-1977 […]
