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Another letter to BBC re Pinochet’s ‘peacekeeeping’.

Posted on February 9, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.4 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General Augusto Pinochet because he ‘saved Chile from civil war’.  You may read the others … Continue reading →

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School for torture but no civil war? More on BBC allowing Paul Johnson to praise Pinochet unchallenged.

Posted on February 8, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.3 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General August Pinochet because he ‘prevented civil war’. You may read the others here: No.5, … Continue reading →

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BBC defends failure to challenge hurtful distortions by Pinochet supporter

Posted on February 1, 2012 by biowrite

[This is No.2 in a series of blog posts on Paul Johnson’s statement on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that he admired Chilean mass-murderer General August Pinochet because he ‘prevented civil war’. You may read the others here: No.5, … Continue reading →

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Abu Ghraib company will not be used again for Scottish Census?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by biowrite

Below you will find (1) the Registrar General’s reply to my letter to him about the use of CACI (a company employed by the US government to work at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where prisoners were tortured) … Continue reading →

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The Census 2011: a letter to my MEP

Posted on March 25, 2011 by biowrite

UPDATE:  Read what has happened since I first wrote to my MP. Read the response from my MEP’s office to the letter I sent to him. CACI Ltd has been given an £18.5 million contract for key information technology work … Continue reading →

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The Scottish Census 2011 and torture

Posted on March 25, 2011 by biowrite

UPDATE:  I have now sent a letter, based on the draft below, to my MP.  Watch this space for further news. I  do not want to be complicit in torture, and so am considering not returning my census form directly … Continue reading →

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UK Government Complicit in Torture

Posted on April 22, 2009 by biowrite

Here’s a press release I drafted for Dr Bill Wilson MSP today!  (On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays I work in the Scottish Parliament as his researcher.) Best wishes Eric

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