[PDF file]: […] out: ‘Whatever these Western government ministers might say publicly, they could not claim to be unaware of Kagame’s tactics’. Where they were unsuccessful was in getting the BBC, CNN or Al Jazeera to give the tape recordings an airing. (pp. 77-78) Why then was the Rwandan regime so liked in the West? Tony Blair […]
[…] that, on the preponderance of evidence, Olaf Neitsch’s father was indeed a Stasi officer, even though that Stasi officer might not have been Herbert Neitsch. 10 11 BBC News, 15 January 2017. See . An academic study has analysed the degree of nepotism in the Stasi’s Karl-Marx-Stadt district office, where the above-mentioned Herbert Neitsch […]
[PDF file]: […] fine imposed and the expenses incurred by the Telegraph dealing with the court case. Harebrained? ‘Page 8’ was a film written and directed by David Hare on BBC 2 on 28 August 2011, in which Bill Nighy played a suave, sophisticated senior MI5 officer who saves the Service from being being destroyed in a […]
[PDF file]: […] describe Lockerbie in her memoirs, had wanted a more doughty foe than Dr Swire she’d have been hard put to find one. A former Army officer and BBC television engineer who then retrained as a general practitioner, Flora’s father was just the kind of honourable, hard-working and patriotic figure Thatcher told us was the […]
[…] with the help of the joint intelligence committee . . . Due to be published last autumn it was blocked by No 10 as too negative’. The BBC discussed it on the 27th,6 so evidently Whitehall had ‘As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and […]
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Spook joke department ‘UK spies will need artificial intelligence’ reads the headline to a Gordon Corera piece on BBC news online.1 Yes, the gags are pretty much writing themselves now. Deferred prosecution agreements – buying your way out of trouble ‘A deferred prosecution agreement, or […]
[PDF file]: […] then about government borrowing;1 3 the trade deficit,1 4 and 10 Lewis was the author of the classic account of 1980s Wall St. rackets, Liar’s Poker. 11 BBC News on-line, 19 December, 2003, ‘IMF gives Brown borrowing warning’ 12 13 ‘Brown besieged over growth and borrowing plans’, The Times, 22 September 2005 14 20 […]
[…] for The Guardian and in 2012 published Britain for Sale: British Companies in Foreign Hands – The Hidden Threat to Our Economy. Brummer was interviewed by the BBC about it. See . 37 12 Will Hutton in The Observer: We are so badly governed by ministers and a party living in a sealed right-wing […]
[PDF file]: […] was determined to clear my name and hoped for additional interest from journalists like David McKittrick. All was going well, with significant coverage, until McKittrick and a BBC journalist called John Ware wrote notorious articles on 2 September 1987 for the London Independent, containing proven falsehoods. They reinvigorated a smear, criticised by Duncan Campbell, […]
[PDF file]: […] Way (Blackwell, Oxford, 1986). 25 Bryan Gould, Goodbye To All That, (Macmillan, London, 1995) p. 202. 26 Gould p. 205. Eatwell is now Lord Eatwell. 27 Duckworth/ BBC, 1982 28 See note 24 above. 9 The day before the document was due to go to the printer, Gould was asked to meet a delegation […]
