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BBC guidance on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
Cryptome carries an email apparently sent to BBC staff over reporting of councils and their use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act:
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How to engineer an Anglo-Russian rapprochement
Arrange a meeting at a summit. Prior to the meeting, ensure government officials drop reassuring hints about the need to improve relations: Russia now poses its biggest threat to Britain since the Cold War, according to security sources. MI5 fears that Britain has been swamped with spies since the breakdown of relations over the tit-for-tat…
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Charles Wheeler
The Telegraph can’t help getting a sneering dig into broadcasting even as it remembers Charles Wheeler: Sir Charles Wheeler, the BBC foreign correspondent who has died aged 85, was the last working member of the stylish post-war school of television reporting and was one of the few British television journalists to whom the term distinguished…
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The BBC: assisting censorship in Pakistan?
The excellent site run by Kim Andrew Elliott points to a story claiming to outline a deal cut between the BBC World Service and Pakistan‘s state censors, PEMRA.