From today’s Sun on the poignant story of a very fat woman who was dumped by her fiance for an even fatter one – see the third para: Amanda Hart, 25, had a whirlwind romance with Matt Kemp, 27, when she met him online after struggling for years to find […]
Yesterday my Sunday was interrupted by a request from RT-TV (Russia’s answer to the BBC’s world broadcasts) to take part in a programme talking about the Eurozone in general and Italy in particular. As they asked nicely and as it was not too far to the BBC Oxford studio where the […]
I have written here before about the way the BBC defaults towards glossing over collectivist crimes and damning with faint praise the success of market-based solutions. Or slips in other strange invariably Lefty assumptions via sly editing. A handy compilation of a few horrors: – Sneaky use of inverted comma qualification to […]
In the 2011 Total Politics Blog Survey I have made it to the giddy heights of 11th in the UK Non-Aligned Blog category, mainly in very grand company: one behind the BBC’s Nick Robinson (but only one ahead of the scary teeth and fetid breath of underdogs bite upwards). I […]
GCSEs: sloppy grammar will cost pupils’ one in 10 marks Pupils face losing more than one in 10 marks in their GCSEs for poor spelling and grammar amid fears that too many teenagers start work with poor literacy skills. Helpful story and excellent government policy-shift. But amazing how the Telegraph’s […]
Current Drudge Front Page: WHHHHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!DOW PLUNGES ANOTHER 419 POINTS
Polly Toynbee at the Guardian is the latest victim of an appalling new medical condition, USTPDS (US Tea Party Derangement Syndrome). I mean, listen to this: Why bother with the great show of presidential elections when presidents are denied the power to match their pomp? The politics of miasma, where […]
Here is Craig Murray rumbling on about the fact that News International recently held a reception in the FCO: Last week the Murdoch phone hacking empire hired the palatial rooms of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for their summer party. There Rebekah Brooks and Murdoch junior sumptuously entertained their bought […]
More mega-comment web-factories are appearing, before our very eyes. Here is Iain Dale’s new Dale & Co. site, a self-styled current affairs mega-blog. I of course immediately click on World Affairs, and what do I find? Not much, including this curious little piece by one James Chartlton (sic), a trainee […]
Check out this exchange where a Fletcher School graduate tries to correct a Reuters fact-blunder in a story, Reuters putting the School as part of Boston University (it in fact is part of Tufts University). What’s interesting is this part of their explanation: Regarding your request, please see the resolution […]
