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BBC World News Today
I have a piece at the Guardian today reviewing the Beeb’s revamp of its international newscast, The World – now World News Today (World News Tonight already belonging to ABC). Basically, the UK scheduling puts this up against Britain’s equivalent of NewsHour, and that’s got people asking why the BBC is duplicating something already offered…
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Boycott b@%%@*ks
This blog will not be joining the boycott of Israel along with the trades unions of British journalists and academics. It does want peace in the Middle East and goodwill to humanity in general. It recognises that terrorists can go on to be successful politicians (Martin McGuinness, Yitzhak Shamir etc.). But not if they blow…
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Time bombs
The effects of depopulation are going to provide some of the more interesting social, political and cultural phenomena of the late twenty-first century. As women’s literacy has increased, so birth rates have declined across western economies. Anyone who has watched someone go through pregnancy can figure out why. Women are voting with their fertility. So…