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Vacation news
This blog is going on holiday for a fortnight. Back at the end of August for more of the same. But hopefully better – btw if you don’t like this blog, subscribe now and I’ll write less as it’s obviously what people want!
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Planning for defeat in Basra
So the question is, will there be an election before or after our defeat in Iraq? In all the recent posturing from Mark Malloch Brown about the changing nature of the UK/US relationship, you may have missed the fact that a Republican administration that is leaving office can hardly feel minded to paint a British…
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Fin-in-the-Watergate: crisis of trust rocks tabloid news
The Sun got itself well and truly stung. Us TV types look forward to a full independent inquiry into how the paper was fooled and how it carried the hoax forward to its readers. OK, so we won’t be holding our breath.
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Fox News: teaseless, crapless
When people at Fox News start trotting out stuff you were doing five years ago, you know you’re getting old. Still, it is pretty sensible advice: Shepard Smith: We have to do more news. We’ve already given up the “coming up” teasing that we were known for in the early days. We’ve taken all of…