HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT RETAINS CONTROL OVER THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

23 May 2025

1. What Is the DSMA Security Committee?

The DSMA (Defence and Security Media Advisory) Committee is a quiet yet powerful institution within the British establishment. Its primary role is to regulate what information relating to national security is released through the media. Though little discussed in public, its existence sits at the heart of Britain’s unique system of soft censorship, a voluntary pact between the state and the press.

2. A Voluntary but Potent System

The Committee’s workings are based on cooperation rather than law. It does not enforce rules by court order or statute. Instead, it relies on mutual understanding and respect between media editors and state officials. This understanding is formalised through DSMA Notices - formerly known as D-Notices. These are official communications sent to news editors requesting that certain information not be published, especially if it relates to military operations, intelligence activities, or the security services.

3. Who Sits on the Committee?

The DSMA Committee is chaired by a senior civil servant from the Ministry of Defence and includes representatives from MI5, MI6, GCHQ, the Cabinet Office, and the editors of major British newspapers and broadcasters. Its meetings are confidential. It reports to the Cabinet Secretary and operates from within the heart of Whitehall. Despite its discreet profile, its influence is substantial.

4. The Power of the DSMA Notice

DSMA Notices are not legally binding - but they are almost always respected. Editors will rarely defy them. Over the years, these notices have been used to restrict reporting on everything from the activities of special forces in the Middle East to intelligence operations in Russia and cyber campaigns against Iran. The system depends on trust: editors are shown classified material on the understanding that they will not publish it.

5. Critics and Defenders

Critics argue the system amounts to a form of self-censorship, with national security used as a convenient pretext to withhold politically embarrassing information. Others point out that, in an age of social media and decentralised information, the DSMA system is quaint and outdated. Defenders, however, maintain that it is a civilised arrangement - one that balances press freedom with the need to protect lives and operations.

This is not the only way controlling the MSM output of course.

6. Recent Controversies and Questions

The DSMA Committee came under quiet scrutiny in late 2023 when rumours emerged about its involvement in suppressing details of British military support to Israel in Gaza and Lebanon. While mainstream media said little, alternative channels claimed a DSMA Notice had been issued. Yet, curiously, in other sensitive cases - such as recent criminal allegations involving high-profile figures - the same machinery appears silent. Why some stories are silenced while others leak freely remains a matter of speculation.

7. A Final Thought

The British way of handling state secrets relies not on compulsion, but on discretion. The DSMA Committee is both a symbol of that tradition and a reminder of its risks. In a free society, any system that restrains the flow of information must be watched carefully - even, or especially, if it operates without visible force.

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STARMER, RENT BOYS, MI5 MI6 CONFECTION

23 May 2025

Where did the info these rent boys used to attack Starmer's property come from?

Surely, these arson attacks should be called terrorist attacks?

Stanislav is according to Star Now a rent boy, "male model", his own profile says so.

The incidents are widely reported, but why is there no detail? Like, who was this trio working for?

Ali is his clothing manager. (He sits in the House of Lords.) Is this why Ali's been linked to the rent boys?

DSMA Cttee is MI5 and MI6 staffed. They tell the media what they can and cannot report on, and issue D-notices. The MoM from their last meeting in November says how they successfully shut down a story which told of the British forces that are working in Gaza and Lebanon with the IDF. So they could have shut down this rent boy story, but why didn't they, or why haven't they?

Stanislav was arrested leaving the country. Where was he going?

The Czech government back in the nineteen eighties, so forty years ago, labeled him as a British asset. Is Starmer an MI5 / MI6 agent?

Having neutralised the Corbyn left of the Labour Party, having renegotiated Brexit and having obtained wide support in the Labour PLP for ongoing war in Ukraine; but having descended in the polls and lost all credibility, and now, being so tied to the Ukraine war, which surely the UK will want to get out of following the US departure; hasn't Starmer become a useless non-performing asset and is this the way "his handlers" in the security services are getting rid of him?

He is a stiff and feeling-less human being - could this be because he is in fact just a wooden puppet of the establishment, operating through the security services?

So anyway, in conclusion, it looks like he has delivered on his missions to the security services, that this has affected his popularity and credibility to the point where he can no longer govern, and so is this little carefully-managed / sanitised episode the way of giving him the heave-ho? And if so, who is next? Would it be too much of a stretch to imagine that Farage could be brought into the security services, perhaps through his admiration for Trump?

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