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of current affairs programmes and documentaries that appeared to be insufficiently critical of, or even sympathetic to, terrorists. A notable example here is a programme in the BBC’s 1985 documentary series Real Lives, ‘At the Edge of the Union’. ‘Lovable people with babies’: the Real Lives controversy ‘At the Edge of the Union’ caused controversy, not because it gave voice to a prominent republican, Martin McGuinness, who was widely M1426 - COULTER TEXT.qxp:GRAHAM Q7 17/7/08 08:02 Page 255 The media and the propaganda of peace 255 regarded as an IRA leader
most significant time in shaping opinions (de Vreese and Semetko, 2004: 712) and as ‘the crucial phase’ (Hanggli and Kriesi, 2010) of referendums in different national contexts. Interest in the campaign is also expected to peak in the media during this time. Indeed, BBC Scotland and STV, the two main broadcasters that provide dedicated coverage for Scottish audiences, broadcast sixty-four hours of news and current affairs coverage on the referendum between 18 August and 18 September 2014, excluding any programming made for audiences in the rest of the UK. This was
‘Anyone who says anything about our country, what happens to them?’ Nabila Makram, Egypt's minister for immigration, asked in July 2019, during a private party for Egyptian expatriates in Toronto. ‘We cut’, she said, while making a throat-slitting gesture with her hand (BBC 2019 ). This chilling statement coincided with an increased attention to the management of migration and diasporas by numerous Arab and non-Arab states in the Middle East. This book has argued that a fruitful approach to understanding the international relations of
Ireland and the rest of the UK. This became the infamous ‘red line’ for the DUP. A few months later Foster reiterated this graphically when she told the BBC, ‘There’s only ever been one red line and it is this, there cannot ever be a border down the Irish Sea, a differential between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK … The red line is blood red – it’s very red’ ( BBC News , 4 October
, not for money but as the heart dictates. ( BBC Monitoring , 2004 ) This suspicion of Western donors soon turned to hostility as a result of the color revolutions in the neighboring countries of Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan in 2003–2005. In each country, massive protests
-vulnerability-when-security-is-not-what-it-seems/ . (Last visited on November 29, 2019). 14 BBC, ‘Xiaomi: The Chinese Brand Dominating India’s Smartphone Market’, BBC (October 22, 2019), available at www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50135050 . (Last visited on November 29, 2019). 15 Ron Diebert, Steve Adair et al., ‘Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0’, Information Warfare Monitor and Shadowserver Foundation (April 5, 2010), available at www
). 50 Author Interview. Istanbul, 2017. 51 ‘Egypt referendum strongly backs constitutional changes’, BBC News (March 2011) www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12801125 (accessed 16 April 2020). 52 Mahmud, ‘Abd al-Mun’im. Interview, quoted in Wickham
into government with Sinn Féin. He told the journalist Stephen Nolan, ‘We were told if we didn’t do this then it was going to be curtains for our country … How would I have faced my people if I had allowed this country to have the Union destroyed and the setting up of a joint government by the south of Ireland? ( BBC News , 4 April 2007). He made a similar point to the Washington Times. ‘If we had
, retired military men, and local hunters (see Premium Times , 2014), as well as male and female members (BBC News, 2017 ). References Agbiboa , D. ( 2015 ). “ Resistance to Boko Haram: Civilian joint task force in north
military were “disappeared” by state security agencies (BBC, 2017 ; Hashim, 2017 ). These disappearances came after 700 similar cases were reported in 2016 (BBC, 2017 ). According to a legal specialist who focuses on South Asia, security agencies in Pakistan tend to link those who have been forcibly disappeared to terrorism. But CS, on its part, has not taken a unified stance