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Pathetic, snide and feeble Starmeroids – but happily there are usually receipts Keir Starmer’s latest attempt to smear his far more worthy predecessor has consisted of his team briefing their media allies that Corbyn left the leader of the opposition (LOTO) office strewn with an unholy mess – with even mention of an abandoned sleeping […]
Broadcaster slammed for falsely implicating immigrants The BBC has been hammered for feeding into racist stereotypes in its report of the conviction of twenty-one people in the West Midlands on child sex abuse charges. All those convicted are white Britons – yet the BBC illustrated the article with a headline image showing Palestinian flags: After […]
The main Israeli lobby operating under the name of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), a well-financed private group, is worried. Having a huge influence on the mainstream media, either through close relations with proprietors, such as the ideological alliance they have with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, or through bullying and intimidation, they are Continue reading »
Attention conservation notice: short but entirely speculative exercise in amateur sociology/game theory, by someone who has no professional license to do either, and had a blue tick for a couple of years but was always bemused as to why. A quick note as to what went wrong with the Elon Musk strategy of giving power […]
Rupert Murdoch has a wicked problem. Many of the politicians who bent, or even grovelled, when his News media outlets blew on them are no longer scared. On the other hand News – particularly Fox – is showing signs that it is scared of its own audiences. The first sign of Australian politicians losing their Continue reading »
Witness statements on behalf of the claimants against Associated News plunge us straight back into what Gordon Brown once described as the ‘criminal media nexus’
Richard Sharp pumped money into a group that funds causes like the TaxPayers' Alliance, Eurosceptics and the BBC-bashing News-Watch. Now the Charity Commission is "engaging" with his foundation
Josiah Mortimer talks to a leading lawyer who took part in the 2003 ricin trials on the terror cell that never was
The biggest threat facing the USA is not the collapse of democracy. Even though a twice impeached former president talks of death and destruction if he is arrested, while New York’s Attorney General seeks his indictment. Wokeism isn’t the biggest threat, although, due to death threats to staff, the Florida Education Department is cancelling the Continue reading »