What is so special about political spouses?
Interviews with, features on and photographs of the spouses of our political party leaders are still very much the in thing. … Read the full post »
Here are my posts about the state of journalism and how it is carried out, mainly focusing on the UK but with the occasional piece about other countries too.
For more on the topic, see my book Bad News: what the headlines don’t tell us.
Interviews with, features on and photographs of the spouses of our political party leaders are still very much the in thing. … Read the full post »
As with rather many science fiction catastrophe movies, to call the underlying science in The Day The Earth Caught Fire dodgy is too kind. However… … Read the full post »
The latest edition of Matt Forde’s podcast, The Political Party, contains a fascinating, funny and moving interview with journalist Jane Merrick. … Read the full post »
Saturday’s consultation session at Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton on Vince Cable’s proposed party reforms was attended by several hundred people. … Read the full post »
There has been speculation about what the move of Geordie Greig from editing the anti-Brexit Mail on Sunday to the previously very much pro-Brexit Daily Mail will mean for the latter’s editorial line. … Read the full post »
My memory tells me there were a series of reports by Raymond Snoddy for Channel 4’s Hard News TV series in the late 1980s in which he rung up newspapers and asked to speak to various journalists by name, getting rather surprised and evasive responses. … Read the full post »
A few days ago I picked up on the increasing trade union opposition to Brexit, and to Jeremy Corbyn’s current line on it too. Now there’s another significant move going on in another source of political power. … Read the full post »
Great photo of the White House press corps, moments after being told of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. … Read the full post »
Move over, sumo wrestler. There is a new headline in town courtesy of Daily Mail Australia. … Read the full post »
The advent of fake news has made the idea of collapsing trust in institutions, the media, politicians and the Earth’s lack-of-flatness an even more widespread staple of punditry. But it’s a bit of fake news itself. … Read the full post »