Where is the problem? They were important enough that the MI5 was interested in their work.
We live in a world of narratives and history is one of them. Everybody is playing the legitimity-game maybe because nobody has anymore any, so it was the duty of the MI5 to defend the UKs narrative. The UK is still the country of spindoctors -- and they dont pay taxes. H. Am 24/10/14 12:02, schrieb nettime's avid reader: > MI5 spied on leading British historians for decades, secret files > reveal Eric Hobsbawm and Christopher Hill had phones tapped, > correspondence intercepted and friends and wives monitored <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
