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A BBC broadcast exposing an alleged MI5 agent would damage national security and put him at an “immediate risk of serious or life-threatening harm,” a High Court has heard.
Attorney General Suella Braverman is seeking an injunction to block the BBC from airing a broadcast accusing an alleged MI5 agent of being a dangerous extremist who physically and psychologically abused two former partners.
The proposed report also claims that the man, identified in proceedings as X, told one woman that he worked for MI5 in order to terrorise and control her, and that the government’s domestic spying agency should have known it was wrong to use him as a covert intelligence source.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
The fallout from the Kneecap and Bob Vylan performances at Glastonbury raises questions about the suitability of senior BBC management for their roles, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Despite declining to show Kneecap’s set, the BBC broadcast Bob Vylan leading a ‘death to the IDF’ chant — and the resulting outrage has only amplified the very message the Establishment wanted silenced, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER