Media

A boost for the economy

January 15, 2012
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I will pick an example at random, but I can assure you that this nonsense happens in every news source, from the Guardian (hardly surprising, I admit) to Private Eye. This happened to be in the Daily Express: BRITAIN is in line for a £5.5billion tax boom and thousands of new jobs as investors flock [...]

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Dark side of the Daily Mirror

November 30, 2011
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On the Left, when commentators are groping for an argument, it is an occasional theme is to attack the Daily Mail for having supported Oswald Mosley’s British Fascist movement for a time 80 years ago in the 1930s. The line has become a standard Aunt Sally to provide prejudicial background in pieces about the Mail. [...]

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Independent of History

November 13, 2011
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The Independent, being a clever newspaper for intelligent, liberal, thinking people – the kind who check things out before reacting – has a section on it’s website recommending the ‘most viewed’, ‘most shared’, and ‘most commented’ articles. Just like sensible blogs, in fact – you increase readership by making it easier for your readers to [...]

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Road Safety Ambulance Chasers

November 7, 2011
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There’s been a road accident, in case no one heard. A huge, ‘ginormous, road accident. On the M5, on Saturday 5th. As the BBC put it yesterday afternoon: Police probing the M5 crash which killed seven people have said a firework display next to the road is the “major line of inquiry”. Avon and Somerset [...]

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Occupy the Motor Trade!

October 30, 2011

Irresistable. Source.

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The Scheming Power of Pisa.

October 4, 2011
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Take good note of the face above – it belongs to Nick Pisa, professional journalist; one of that breed of trained fact gatherers and disseminators of trustworthy information essential to society – without such valued souls, we should be reduced to getting all our information from mere bloggers, and that would never do would it? [...]

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The Only Way is Downton Abbey

September 26, 2011
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Well done The ITV! How clever of you to find some way of making the turgid new series of ‘The Only Way Is Downton Abbey” actually watchable by cleverly cutting to the gripping tale of “Gary The Aviva Biker” during what I think you’ll find we all expected to be run-of-the-mill ad breaks! As the [...]

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