Conservatives planning to ban gays? Really?
Secret tape reveals Tory backing for ban on gays This headline, currently the top story on Guardian.co.uk, conjures up all sorts of imagery. A man wearing a blue rosette sits with a white-suited figure...
View ArticleCameron-Clegg Coalition Confirmation Conference
BREAKING NEWS: David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the Conservative and Lib Dem leaders, have comfirmed their coalition with a handshake and are holding a press conference in the garden in Downing Street....
View ArticleThe New Cabinet
A complete list of the new Cabinet, the party to which each member belongs and the constituency each one represents. Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service The...
View ArticleBroke Britain
The new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Laws, arrived at his desk to find a letter addressed to him. It was from his Labour predecessor, Liam Byrne. It’s not uncommon people in the political...
View ArticleLeaked US Afghan War files teach us a lesson
Most people have heard about the thousands of US Afghan War files which have been published on Wikileaks (the site seems to be down at the time of writing. Probably just conicidence), but in case you...
View ArticleRichard Peppiatt’s Daily Star Resignation Letter
Richard Peppiatt was, until recently, a reporter for British Tabloid, The Daily Star. He quit his job for reasons which he put more savagely and eloquently that I could manage on this blog; so read his...
View ArticleUpdating Live – Tsunami in Japan videos
Gizmodo is demonstrating the newsgathering capabilities of a technologically equipped nation by collecting all the videos it can of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Most of these were taken by...
View ArticleTrial by Facebook
Remember when the press assumed Chris Jeffries killed Jo Yeats a while ago? He was never charged, and yet he was horrifically demonised in the papers and life will never be the same again for him....
View ArticleWinchester University Tuition Fees Announced
The University of Winchester plans to charge £8500 per year from 2012. Click here to go to the university page.
View ArticleExecuted without trial…
…or “a huge achievement in the fight against terror”. If, as journalists are encouraged, we sidestep the confetti for a moment and do some observing instead of reacting, the remarkably well-timed...
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