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The anonymous Royal
Search Google News for “royal” and “cocaine,” or subscribe to a site like RADAR, and barring some miracle you will discover the identity of the member of the royal family that no British media outlet is allowed to report, but which you could also have heard on Fox News (Sky Channel 510 – m’lud). This…
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News at Ten
In the spirit of passing on hopeless rumours I have heard that the official announcement is today – and also that it will be Wednesday.
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The Dead Journalists Society (sponsored by Uzbekistan)
Has a new member, Alisher Saipov. Saipov was shot dead outside his office. Of course, there is no evidence connecting the murder of this critic of the Uzbek regime and aforesaid repressive regime. Why only the other week, the European Union was offering Uzbekistan a little carrot, to encourage it to repress a little more…
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Why be a journalist?
Why be a journalist? The recent Forbes report that listed journalism as an endangered profession has got an answer from the ever readable John Robinson: What a crock … the report ignores the two reasons that everyone I’ve ever met in print journalism got into the business: they love the work and they want to…