indicates articles I particularly recommend. For
general critical information on Scientology, see Operation Clambake.Up: Martin Poulter > Scientology Criticism > UK Media Archive
"'It has been horrific. I had to learn to live with a level of harassment most people would find intolerable.'"
Bonnie Woods, victim of a hate campaign organised by Scientology
This symbol indicates articles I particularly recommend. For
general critical information on Scientology, see Operation Clambake.
| SOURCE: | DATE: | STORY: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Eye | 28/May/1999 | BBC World TV channel cancels Scientology adverts after complaints | |
| Daily Mail | 1/Jun/1999 | 50 facts you are allowed to know about Tom & Nicole... and 50 you're not | Celebrity gossip about Cruise and Kidman |
| Reuters | 8/Jun/1999 | UK Scientologists pay damages to former member | Newswire item about Bonnie Woods |
| The Guardian | 9/Jun/1999 | Scientologists pay for libel | Bonnie Woods victory in the High Court |
| Daily Mail | 9/Jun/1999 | Cult pays £155,000 over hate campaign | Bonnie Woods' victory in the High Court |
| The Express | 9/Jun/1999 | My victory joy after six year battle with cult | Interview with Bonnie Woods |
| The Independent | 22/Jun/1999 | Going 10 rounds with Goliath | Allen & Overy lawyer writes about the Bonnie Woods case |
| The Independent | 11/Jul/1999 | Cult to launch TV ad blitz on UK | |
| Sunday Times | 11/Jul/1999 | (Item about Variety cancelling an article about Scientology) | |
| BBC News web site | 12/Jul/1999 | e-cyclopedia article: Cult or religion: What's the difference? | |
| Sunday Times | 18/Jul/1999 | Enemy of the People: Tom Cruise | |
| The Express | 22/Jul/1999 | How I was reduced to black despair by 'caring' church's personality test | First-person account of some sales techniques |
| Daily Telegraph | 29/Jul/1999 | Technoturkey: Patent failure to to exploit invention ("Connected" section) | An alleged lapse in the patent for the E-meter |
| Daily Telegraph | 19/Aug/1999 | (Letter to the editor) | Graeme Wilson responds to claims about E-meter patent |
| Evening Argus (Brighton) | 6/Sep/1999 | Stately home tour that has a hidden agenda | Tour of Saint Hill used as Scientology PR exercise |
| BBC World Service | 7/Sep/1999 | Short item about Marseille trial | |
| Daily Telegraph | 9/Sep/1999 | Scientology case papers destroyed | Short item about disappearing evidence |
| BBC News | 9/Sep/1999 | Scientology faces French ban | On web site, not sure if used on television |
| The Guardian | 9/Sep/1999 | Files destroyed in Scientology case | Disappearance of some trial evidence explained |
| The Times | 11/Sep/1999 | Weekend Games: WWW | Review of some Scientology-related web sites |
| The Observer | 19/Sep/1999 | (Comment by Richard Ingrams on Scientology) | Talks about TV adverts and calls LRH "one of this century's greatest-ever rogues" |
| BBC News | 20/Sep/1999 | Scientology trial opens in France | web site news item |
| The Guardian | 21/Sep/1999 | French fraud case puts Scientology in the dock | Start of the Marseille trial |
| The Express | 21/Sep/1999 | Mystery of sect 'swindlers' and the court's shredded evidence | Report from France |
| Daily Telegraph | 21/Sep/1999 | Scientologists on trial for fraud, violence and quackery | Major trials in France |
| Sunday Times | 21/Sep/1999 | Church fraud charges | brief news item |
| BBC Radio 4 | 21/Sept/1999 | Today programme | Four minute item: 3 tonnes of evidence against Scientologists disappears in Marseille trial |
| The Independent | 24/Sept/1999 | Travolta Flies Out To Dodge Trial Questions | Travolta avoids involvement in Marseille trial |
| Varsity (Cambridge Uni.) | 21/Oct/1999 | Cults: for and against | Report from a student debate with guest speakers |
| The Guardian | 16/Nov/1999 | Scientology leader jailed for fraud | Xavier Delamare sent to prison by Marseille court |
| The Times | 16/Nov/1999 | Former cult chief jailed for fraud | Xavier Delamare and four others convicted |
| Evening Argus (Brighton) | 10/Dec/1999 | Scientology bid to be a charity is thrown out | Charity Commission rejects charity bid |
| The Guardian | 10/Dec/1999 | Sect loses battle to become a charity | Charity Commission declare after 3-year investigation |
| Daily Telegraph | 10/Dec/1999 | Scientology not religion, says Charity Commission | Scientology declared not a religion under English charity law |
| The Independent | 10/Dec/1999 | Scientologists are refused charitable status | Scientology fails to show public benefit |
| The Times | 10/Dec/1999 | Church 'fails test' for charity status | Scientology fails to show public benefit |
| The Observer | 19/Dec/1999 | Letters to the Editor: Hubbard love | Complaint from Scientology spokesman Graeme Wilson |
| Daily Express | 28/Dec/1999 | Scientology not religion, says Charity Commission | Preview of "Battlefield Earth" |