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Is James Murdoch on the lam?
Rupert Murdoch promises to spend the next three months in Britain launching his replacement for the disgraced News of the World and supporting the Sun’s beleaguered journalists. The latter is not a very easy balancing act as he has also set up an operation to turn those same journalists over to the police. The whole [...]
Being nice to a Tory
Having just been rather rude about the appearance of a Tory minister below I think I will now be nice to a Tory MP. David Ruffley has an interesting article in the Daily Telegraph where he looks at why we haven’t come to terms with the bankers and the catastrophe they produced. He even looks [...]
A few more downstairs
It’s good to know Cameron’s government is taking care of all sections of society including its own. Saw on the Telegraph’s website their idea to give employers of maids, gardeners, cleaners and such a tax break for having domestic staff. Of course they are doing this so more servants can be employed rather than to [...]
Some people get it
I know I harp on about income disparity and how it has widened since the mid-seventies. There are others who do see this as the major problem in society today, and not least of these are those attending Davos this year. Listen to Gillian Tett of the Financial Times talking about this on BBC’s This [...]
Peter Oborne Again
Yes I know he is an extremely conservative man working for an extremely conservative newspaper but at times I just can’t help agreeing with him. I have nothing in common with him, yet his sense of disgust at our some of our new political class endears him to me. Below I’m going to paste a [...]
Equal justice under the law
Equal justice under the law, that’s what’s engraved on the US Supreme Court Building in Washington. I’m sure it means just as much to Brits as Americans, but it will be tested over the next couple of years. Yesterday at the High Court in London News International (NI) settled a bunch of civil cases brought [...]
The spin doctors are at work
I am posting a comment I made on David Osler’s blog earlier today. It’s about the recent statements made both both Ed Miliband and Ed Balls followed by the response of some union leaders. To me the Labour leadership is making a serious mistake and it has the smell of their press Svengali Tom Baldwin [...]
A short defence of @hackneyabbott
Maybe Diane was a little thoughtless. However, racism doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it exists in application to dynamics of power. Anyone who spends 50 years as a black woman is going to have experienced a constant stream of active, passive, institutional and even well-meaning racism in that time as well as a whole load [...]
PCC backs Daily Mail over racist riot coverage
In October I made my first ever complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over a xenophobic piece in the Daily Mail blaming foreigners for the summer riots. I have just had the response from the PCC, which has backed the Daily Mail in saying the code was not breached. The ruling is below but my [...]
This is not Cameron and Murdoch
It should be stressed that Alexander Armstrong is not playing David Cameron and Michael Kitchen is not playing Rupert Murdoch. Have to say I did enjoy watching Hacks.
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