[…] Robertson of Port Ellen. Beams and motes A splendid riposte was handed to Robertson’s old chum, Denis MacShane, in the letters column of The Guardian. The former BBC reporter turned international trade union official and then Foreign Office minister, had taken issue with former Washington ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer. He claimed the man who […]
[…] book is the large number of people interviewed by him who are careful not to be named when making comments about his subject. Andrew Hosken is a BBC TV journalist who became quite well known in the 1990s covering London local government. At that time he seemed to be working closely with associates of […]
[…] of staff, Jonathan Powell. Both are close to an earlier editor of The Independent who is also strongly pro-Euro: Andrew Marr is now political editor of the BBC. Mandelson has long been a leading figure in the European Movement, but its fortunes seem to be as popular as those of Leo Gillen, the businessman […]
[…] 26.5.66 1934 JOURNALIST ON SEVERAL PAPERS 1940 SOE FORCE 136 (LAOS) FRENCH RESISTANCE 1945 WAR CRIMES COMMISSION. INDO CHINA, BURMA AND NW EUROPE 1948 DAILY MIRROR 1950 BBC FOREIGN NEWS, HEAD OF PRESS DIV MALAYAN INFORMATION SERVICES 1959 SENIOR INFO OFFICER CRO 1961 1ST SEC (INFO) FREETOWN, 1ST SEC (INFO) CANBERRA 1963 PRINCIPAL INFO […]
[…] For all his deconstruction and demystification, Miller has not done enough to show the allegiance to the state among media personnel. Daphne Park, for example, of the BBC Board of Governors, is not described as former senior MI6 officer. Paul Wilkinson is frequently quoted, but there is nothing on his part in the disinformation […]
[…] politic forces would emerge on top once Saddam was removed.’ In ‘Blair was warned of looming disaster in Iraq’, in The Daily Telegraph, John Ware trailed his BBC TV programmes on the subject and his opening sentence included this: ‘the former prime minister was told repeatedly about America’s lack of planning for peace and […]
[…] Awards.For more recent views on the death of Dr. Kelly see Paul Brandon et al, ‘The death of David Kelly and the “sexed up” WMD report: was BBC Andrew Gilligan’s original source a senior member of Her Majesty’s Government?’ at . ‘The record on CURVEBALL: declassified documents and key participants show the importance of […]
[…] Blunt’s memoirs are apparently safely locked up in the British Library along with the Magna Carta. Out this year is Dear Anthony by American John Costello and BBC researcher Cherry Hughes. Hughes, who has spent three years researching the book, says “He was a lot more important than has so far been admitted. It’s […]
[…] net result may have been to omit words or qualifying statements or to present as certainties matters which were only probabilities misleading, though not, as the BBC, asserted, mendacious’ (p. 76) I leave it to the reader to consider the distinction between misleading and mendacious. This view is only of interest if the […]
[…] issue 8, and looked it up. This is what they had published: ‘In Lobster 26 Robin Ramsay recalls the one section that was apparently cut from a BBC Panorama documentary on MI5 et al in 1981. This was Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, declaring: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing […]
