Jan Moir

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October 19, 2009

‘Journalists think before they write – bloggers write before they think’, runs the popular mantra of those who extol the virtues of professional journalists over bloggers. The uproar over Jan Moir’s article in the Daily Mail last week prompted my own article on the hypocrisy of the Twittter crowd who had jubilantly hailed their own [...]

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The Pink Princess

October 17, 2009

When Stephen Gately’s death was first announced in hushed reverential tones on the BBC news, my first reaction was Stephen Who?  Never heard of him. By the time the ‘breaking news’ announcements had given way to long deferential reportage over the course of the evening, I had gathered that he was some sort of Pop [...]

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