Australia’s 26 million people have spent the morning trying to get the image of Rupert Murdoch’s wedding night out of their head. “I’m trying to think of nice things like a beautiful lake with ducks floating on it but it’s... Read More ›
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Private eye at heart of phone-hacking scandal claims he was wrongly convicted twice for same crime as he launches "vindicating" book
John Menadue recently asked Pearls and Irritations (P&I) readers to suggest how to go about raising the bar in relation to content and relevance. My response would be to suggest that P&I facilitate a means to achieve a true democracy here in Australia; by harnessing all of the intelligence, observation, nous, wit and political awareness Continue reading »
The almost total lack of any positive coverage of China in the British media further closes off the scope even for making arguments that policy should reflect opportunities from dealing with China. Foreword by Gemma Cheng’er Deng, PhD student, Lau China Institute: By the end of 2022, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the end Continue reading »
Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening
Part Two: The interconnectedness of far-right groups reflects the extent to which those holding extreme beliefs have used the issue of child sexual exploitation to further their own ends
Part Three: In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that 'group-based offenders are most commonly white'
Part Four: The far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by a lack of services with its own range of 'support' for survivors
Farage would be cancelled if he said the same things about Jews as he does Muslims - yet he gets endless airtime
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on unpicking the narratives around South Africa's stance on two of the world's biggest geopolitical issues