adrian monck

Amid all this talk of suspicions about Allen Stanford and his method of business – many people might be asking themselves, who knew? Where was the media all this time? Let’s whistle back through the archives ten years…

The Press Complaints Commission makes the following announcement regarding a child who is not Britain’s youngest-ever father: The Press Complaints Commission has announced an inquiry into alleged payments by The Sun and the People to the parents of Alfie Patten.

Editors, reporters and even cartoonists are in the grip of religious McCarthyism. Freedom of Speech lies bleeding in the gutter, near its dead friend, Rationalism. Superstition struts its stuff. Religion won’t kill you, but it knows someone who might just beat you till your brains come out of your ears. We are afraid to even…