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Inside the surge
If you haven’t seen Sean Smith’s film from Baghdad then do yourself a favour and check it out. Smith is a Guardian photographer who’s been shooting video whilst on an embed with a US outfit.I don’t urge you to watch it with a view to persuading you of the sense or otherwise of the US…
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Going to pot and other comedy headlines…
Before I earned the right to moralise about your behaviour and upbraid you for failing to conform to my current high personal standards…I once sinned. Sadly I’m not going to share my teenage history of amphetamine abuse (narcolepsy you understand), but British Labour politicians – like Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – are popping up in…
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Journalism training for executives
Time was when being a journalist was pretty much de rigeur for network bosses. CBS President Howard Stringer was a news division product. NBC’s Andy Lack (for whom I once did a very great and unacknowledged favour) was a news exec. They knew politics. They had judgement. In Britain, Mark Thompson was propelled into his…
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Islamism in universities
Given the headline above you can perhaps see how would-be terrorists would be keen to up their academic credentials. On which topic, I heard Ed Husain on Today this morning repeating the familiar mantra that universities are centres of Islamist recruitment. It was an odd piece, since it seemed to lack any factual peg –…