Four years ago, I wrote about the functions of bigotry in the mass media, and the ever charming Melanie Phillips was my case study. Then, somewhat counter-intuitively, The Daily Mail made use of Mel to get the lefties in and boost their clicks per second average. Every idiocy that tripped off her keyboard was then, in […]
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Why the Establishment loves Jeremy Clarkson
Mar 27th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Petrolheads everywhere, sob into your empty oil cans. For Top Gear is, as was, no more. The verdict couldn’t have been anything else. Whatever you might think about Jeremy Clarkson, which in my case is not a lot, it was impossible even for him to cling on to his job after a 20 minute tirade, […]
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The meaning of Jeremy Clarkson
Mar 11th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended by the BBC for an alleged “fracas” with a producer for Top Gear. Innocent until proven otherwise and all that, but it does come after years of nudge, nudge, wink, wink racism and associated vicious stupidity. Needless to say, I don’t particularly like him and avoid his shows like the plague. […]
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Cameron hoist by his own petard
Mar 6th, 2015 by Newsdesk.Labour’s excellent new campaign ad. David Cameron explains why David Cameron should stop running scared from the TV debates. In his own words.
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What trade unions can do in spite of the “Gagging Act”
Mar 4th, 2015 by Keith Ewing.Many readers will recall the great controversy that was provoked by the clumsily entitled Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning etc Act 2013 at the time it was passed. It is clear its purpose was to clear the pitch for the Tories, to allow them to dominate the election with their city-fuelled war chest. Opponents – […]
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Peter Oborne and the Tory crisis – unfit to run a newspaper, let alone a country
Feb 18th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Good on Peter Oborne. Good on him for telling the Barclay Brothers to stick their job. Regular paid writing gigs are hard to come by for journos, so to spurn what is one of the cushiest jobs on Fleet Street for a matter of principle shows him to be a writer with value and integrity, […]
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It’s reds under the beds time (for the Greens)
Feb 10th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.It’s reds under the beds time! Or rather in the newly insurgent Green Party. According to today’s Mirror, “hard left activists” have flocked to the Greens. Natalie Bennett has been forced to deny that significant numbers of former Socialist Workers Party members have been signing up, though the paper notes “her own partner is an […]
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No more Page 3… but don’t be fooled
Jan 21st, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.At long last Page 3, The Sun’s long-running big-breasted totem is to be shelved … and replaced with scantily clad young women covering up that little bit more. A victory? I suppose it is one, of sorts. It’s clearly a pay off for the No More Page 3 campaign. I wonder if the rest of […]
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The joy of UK politics: Tories choose gutter press smear operations rather than debates
Jan 19th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.In yesterday’s Mail on Sunday. we’re told that Ed Miliband and Ed Balls knew the economy was speeding into a brick wall and therefore privately urged Gordon Brown to go for an election in Autumn 2007. This, from a book by former Doncaster mayor and self-styled fixer for Labour in Yorkshire, Martin Winter. An aside. […]
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Too fat to work – meet your new hate figures
Jan 6th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Those lovely folks over at Daily Express TV have hit on a relatively untapped vein of hate. Marry together your idea of the undeserving poor sponging off the hardworking tax payer with fat people and you have the perfect scapegoat: someone who cannot work because they are obese. Channel 5’s Benefits: Too Fat to Work […]
