Regrettably, I felt that I had to withdraw my rebuttal to The Spectator because Toby Young wanted to heavily edit it. This is his proposed version, which I don’t think would have done the job at all. I’ve preserved his edits in a PDF, which you can download here.
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Spectator emails
I am collecting emails about the Spectator’s hit job on the Frontline Club If you have anything to add then please send! Vaughan Between Sam Kiley and James Kerchick… From: (Sam Kiley) Date: 11 February 2016 at 19:11:54 CET To: (James Kerchick) Subject: Re: Frontline club There is no Frontline club position on assange. Vaughns opinions are his own…. Read more »
Why I Continue to Support Julian Assange (Short Version)
For a longer article explaining my support of Julian Assange, please visit this post. Julian Assange is back in the news, and the British media remains overwhelmingly hostile. I have continued to publicly to support Julian despite this, because I don’t think he has been treated fairly under the law in a country that… Read more »
Why I Continue to Support Julian Assange
Julian Assange is back in the news, and the British media remains overwhelmingly hostile. I have continued publicly to support Julian despite this, because I don’t think he has been treated fairly under the law in a country that promises to apply justice without favour. I became involved with Julian and Wikileaks by accident…. Read more »
Forgotten War
This is from my last trip to Afghanistan Sept/Oct 2012. The British Ministry of Defence’s press office objected to the first 2 1/2 minutes, claiming that I was breaking the terms of my embed by broadcasting it. I will blog shortly about the British military media management and how it has tightened up as the… Read more »
Operation Moshtarak
Broadcast Channel 4 News 2010. Royal Anglians attached to Grenadier Guards fighting.
Sureties Hearing 3 October 2012 – address by Vaughan Smith
Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to address the court today. I have been asked by the eight other sureties to speak on their behalf as well as my own. We appreciate that the court wants to know what the sureties may have privately or publicly done to encourage Mr. Assange to submit… Read more »
Grenadier Guards in Helmand, 2007.
BBC Newsnight September 2007.