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How did Jimmy Savile get away with it?
People have been asking, how did Jimmy Savile get away with rape and sexual abuse, hundreds of victims, for so long? Rape culture. This cartoon in the Daily Mail today shows how Savile did it. His...
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Lord McAlpine is a taxdodger
Much of the mainstream press is awash with very public horror at the thought that the government might legislate regulation on the national press if that’s what Lord Leveson recommends. Last week, Lord...
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Leveson proposes, Cameron disposes
Whenever anyone claims that the British press has moved into a new ethical period because of Leveson and so no new legislation is required, remember David Rose of the Daily Mail and the ugly,...
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What’s black and white and read all over?
Over the past week, there was a big row in the press about three children who had been fostered for eight weeks by a couple who were members of UKIP (and who were heterosexual, as UKIP does not hold...
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Hate
In the 2012 council elections, in quite a few wards the SNP decided to improve their number of seats on the council by breaking the musical chairs rule: instead of having just one party representative...
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When to muzzle your Press
I was inspired to write this, if that’s the word, on reading Fleet Street Fox on the Leveson Report: The devil is in the detail, published yesterday in the Press Gazette. It’s a fine example of a rant...
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LibDems: Dying for a general election
Nick Clegg’s New Year message leans heavily on things he had less than nothing to do with: “The last twelve months have been lit up by moments that will stay with us forever. When Mo Farah approached...
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Moore freedom of the press
On Tuesday 8th January, Suzanne Moore’s essay on the power of female anger went up on the New Statesman website. I read through it, liked it, winced at one line in it, and glanced at Twitter and saw I...
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Paul Dacre Fisked
Someone must leak the letter Paul Dacre wrote the Guardian demanding a column…. “Out in the real world, it was a pretty serious week for news. The US was on the brink of budget default, a British court...
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Daily Mail, Leveson, & Ms Jack Monroe
Jack Monroe got monstered by Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail. This is of course something Richard Littlejohn does on a regular basis. Jack Monroe reacted by pointing out the multiple things that...
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