Mark Pack

Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder of course. But I think I’m on safe ground on this one. Cast your mind over the many things Gordon Brown has and hasn’t done. Plenty to criticise. Plenty of criticisms made. But what did The Sun wheel out yesterday? In amongst the story about his letter-with-spelling-mistakes to a dead soldier’s [...] »

The Sun says: ”Every August poll carried out before a spring election since 1996 has predicted the result to within one per cent.” Reality says: MORI 24 August 2001 2000 – Con 29% (out by 4%), Lab 51% (out by 9%), lead 22% (out by 9%) Although this is the most striking example, overall for example eight out of [...] »

I suspect it may in part have been because it gave them a chance to take a pop at Harriet Harman – but there’s big coverage in The Sun, and other media, today for figures collated by the Liberal Democrats about the gender pay gap in central government: Official figures show female civil servants are paid [...] »

The BNP like to style themselves as the party that tells the truth, which is why the tales of their fake photos and made-up statistics matter. Here’s the latest BNP fakery: AN ex-Guardsman branded the BNP “scumbags” last night for using his photo and faked words on an election flyer. Former Scots Guards NCO Stuart Walker, 37, [...] »