[…] miss five years earlier. Only the veteran journalist Alastair Cooke gave the 1998 crisis any serious discussion in two editions of his ‘Letter from America’, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 15 June and 11 August this year. The story is instructive on two levels. First because it suggests that it may be wrong […]
[…] that is Field Marshall Montogmery of Alamein, the commander of the Eighth Army during the Second World War. From 1931 to 1947 he was employed by the BBC in Northern Ireland in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). From 1952-71 he was a member […]
[…] Office-funded) adjunct to their ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ initiatives. The board includes: Princess Anne, Lords Brittan, Carr, Hunt and Merlyn-Rees, Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy (Kingfisher plc), Michael Hastings ( BBC), Nathaniel Sloane (Accenture), Matt Baggott (Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police), Liz Wicksteed (Home Office) and Sir Stanley Kalms (Treasurer of the Conservative Party).(7) Demos brought […]
[…] Campbell and his people in the CIC preparing the second ‘intelligence-based dossier’ which was endorsed by Colin Powell at the UN. On 5 February 2003 Andrew Gilligan, BBC Defence Correspondent, and formerly at the Sunday Telegraph, announced that he had received a leaked document from Defence Intelligence staff – i.e. the military – which […]
[…] B. S. A. Tahir, Griffin was named as a middleman for a project to create a machine shop in Libya. Griffin subsequently won libel cases against the BBC (26) and The Guardian27 for alleging that he had been knowingly involved in assisting the Libyan regime in developing its nuclear programme. He claimed complete ignorance […]
[…] Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan’s IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. But his old Guardian colleague, Jim […]
[…] Guy Barnett, Robert Jackson, Robert Rhodes-James, and Cabinet Minister Timothy Raison. Other well-known names about London’s elite circles involved are D.C. Watt and Alexander McCloud of the BBC. I don’t know what the significance of this is yet: I haven’t seen a copy. But Jackson, both a Euro MP as well as the Westminster […]
[…] Warfare kit to collect……some seeds. Being Frank In his account of being shot in Iraq, ‘The man who would not die’ in The Guardian 19 April 2005, BBC correspondent Frank Gardner said of the person who shot him: ‘He didn’t see me as a non-partisan reporter who’s simply trying to report what’s going on.’ […]
[…] claimed to have been working for MI5, was involved in a climbing accident in the Alps. Colin Wallace The Observer (12 December, 1993) reported that a proposed BBC drama-documentary, based on the Paul Foot book about Colin Wallace, had been scrapped. (The Observer had Wallace as ‘former MI5 officer’, but we’ll let that pass.) […]
[…] for his comment about the collective raspberry blown through Whitehall at Tony Blair’s talk of Iraq being a threat (see ‘Iraq’, above), made some further comments on BBC Radio 4. ‘There was a culture of news management which came in after 1997 which I had not seen before and intelligence got swept up in […]
