User:Philip Cross

Template:Userpage (rounded) Andrew Philip Cross (born 1963) is a British-based Wikipedian. In that time, I have modified or created pages relating to film, jazz, literature, the media, politics and other subjects too.

Wikipedia's 16 March 2016 Signpost newsletter (see the "In brief" section) touched on an issue raised by Craig Murray concerning my activities on this site: "Is GCHQ Embedded in Wikipedia?" A few days earlier, on his Sputnik RT programme, George Galloway discussed his Wikipedia article which he said is "truly unbelievable" amounting to "large scale organised subversion of someone's public image". George Galloway has written some very interesting things about "Andrew Philip Cross", or rather "Philip Cross", on Twitter in recent days.

In February 2005, in an early edit to this page, I typed this: "I don't always log in, as modifying contentious articles anonymously, while keeping to the neutrality house rules, is something I prefer". In other words, it is quite possible, I was not wholly ethical in the early months of editing articles on this site; the IP address now traces to the United States.

There is a gap of several months in my edit history, indicating that I was editing via an IP address, and this might well be the subject of a very valid complaint. My entire edit history is an excellent way "to explore strange new worlds", to identify any unreported 3RRs evasions, locate multiple dodgy mainstream media citations which Wikipedia alleges to be reliable sources and other policy errors which eminent and reputable experts in propaganda would enjoy spending hours trying to identify and write blog articles about. It is also an excellent way for them to waste their time.

An anonymous IP user returned to Murray and Galloway's theme on one of this site's discussion pages in November 2017, but only received a response from myself. These documents (and the programme on Putin's propaganda channel) are cited because I genuinely have nothing suspicious to hide. Any claim my user name is an alias, or this is a meatpuppet account, is entirely false.

Articles largely written by this user

• Emma Barnett, British broadcaster and journalist
• Dorothea Brooking, BBC television children's drama producer
• Caroline Criado Perez, British feminist campaigner
• Paul Dacre, British newspaper editor
• Shelagh Delaney, British playwright and screenwriter
• George Galloway, British politician, writer and broadcaster
• Buzz Goodbody, British theatre director
• Geoffrey Goodman, British journalist
• Felicity Green, British journalist and former newspaper executive
• Lars Gullin, Swedish jazz saxophonist
• James Harding, former editor of The Times and ex-head of BBC News
• Georgina Henry, British journalist, formerly in charge of the website of The Guardian newspaper
• Anna Home, former head of BBC Children's television
• Anthony Howard, British journalist, broadcaster and author
• Oliver Kamm, columnist/leader writer on The Times
• Jay Landesman, Anglo-American bohemian
• Lux Film, Italian film distribution and production company
• Len McCluskey, British trade unionist, general secretary of Unite
• Media Lens, British media analysis website (edited by David Cromwell and David Edwards)
• Seumas Milne, aide to UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (Executive Director of Strategy and Communications) and journalist
• George Monbiot, journalist for The Guardian and campaigner on the environment.
• Charlotte Moore, British television executive and last controller of BBC One
• Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan
• Cathy Newman, British journalist and broadcaster (Channel 4 News)
• John Pilger, Australian born journalist and documentary film maker
• Amol Rajan, BBC Media Editor, former editor of The Independent
• Gillian Reynolds, British journalist, broadcaster and radio critic
• Piers Robinson, Professor of politics, society and political journalism, University of Sheffield. Broadcaster for RT and the Sputnik agency
• Olive Shapley, British broadcaster/producer for the BBC in Manchester
• Kim Shillinglaw, British television executive, last controller of BBC Two and BBC Four
• Stan Tracey, British jazz musician, pianist and composer
• Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper/Guardian Media Group
• The Wednesday Play (1964–70), BBC television drama anthology series
• Mary Whitehouse, British Christian morality campaigner, founder and first president of the National Viewers and Listeners Association
• Joy Whitby, British television producer and executive specialising in children's programmes
• Peregrine Worsthorne, British journalist, former editor of The Sunday Telegraph
• Yesterday's Men, 1971 BBC television documentary