Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Journalists’ own pact with the devil

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While Dominic Cummings is no genius, he does have a good understanding of how the UK media works, and therefore how to manipulate it. Ther...
Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Brexit is a denial of economics as knowledge

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A well known Brexiters said it was almost worth doing Brexit because of the anger I feel about it. He is right about the anger. The prospe...
Friday, 18 October 2019

Is this good for Johnson, whether he wins or loses?

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I have no idea whether Johnson will get his deal through on Saturday. As the broadcast media is obsessed by headcounts I will leave it to ...
Tuesday, 16 July 2019

There is only one alternative to Prime Minister Boris Johnson

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Corbyn may not be a great or even a particularly good leader, but it seems few in the media recognise he is the only viable opposition to ...
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Saturday, 6 July 2019

Understanding why right-wing populism succeeds

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I have just been rereading “ Populism and the People ” by Jan-Werner Müller in the London Review of Books (May 2019). It is the most conci...
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Tuesday, 23 April 2019

When people warning about incipient fascism are criticised rather than laughed at is the time to worry about incipient fascism

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I’m old enough to remember left wing demonstrations in the UK when ‘fascist!’ was a standard chant. On most occasions back then it was a r...
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Tuesday, 9 April 2019

The right wing partisan media is the elephant in the room in discussions of mainstream politics and far right extremism

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Treason used to be a word associated with spies or assassins. Crimes against the state of the utmost severity. Yet, to take just two recen...
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