Interesting Private Eye piece on FIFA and FA and hacks...
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The blazers at the English FA may now reconsider plans to give a high-profile job to Simon Greenberg, former Evening Standard sports editor and Chelsea FC press supremo, following his woefully inept performance as “chief of staff” for the 2018 World Cup bidding team.
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Paul Lashmar is a journalist and university lecturer who has covered many of the major stories of the last 30 years. He is also an author and TV Producer. Paul is on staff at Brunel University as a lecturer in journalism.
Specialist areas include: * Terrorism * Intelligence * Spying * Organised crime * Business fraud * The Cold War
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Paul's News:
I've put an 1993 audio interview I did with the the RAF pilot who flew the U2 over USSR in 1960 on my YouTube channel click here
My Youtube channel: I've opened a batch of my US Col War archive films: click here
My paper "Urinal or conduit? Institutional information flow between the UK intelligence services and the news media." has been published online (prior to the hard copy publication) for Journalism, Theory, Practice and Criticism. 30 January 2013. (Sage) it can be found at this subscription site
Sweet Tooth A colleague pointed out that Ian McEwan has given fulsome acknowledgement to my co-authored book 'Britain's Secret Propaganda War' (with James Oliver) in his new novel Sweet Tooth which is about a romance by two people working in intelligence during the Cold War. (click here)
Paul Recommends:
Dorset County Museum. This is a wonderful example of a county museum with lot of great exhibits. The cast iron frame building is Dorchester is great and where else can you see such a collection of Roman mosaic floors outside the British Museum.Their events list this year has been superb. www.dorsetcountymuseum.org