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Sunday guest booking
Stoke Newington GP, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, was on 5 Live this morning responding to the Government’s plan to survey 5 million patients. [BBC] Now I know it’s hard to get guests at 8am on a Sunday morning, especially about something quite so exciting. But booking someone like Fitzpatrick, and then introducing him as just another…
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Security experts…
From the BBC: Security analyst Glenmore Trenear-Harvey, who met Mr Litvinenko several times, said the media focus on the Kremlin was “lazy” and bore the hallmarks of a John Le Carre novel. “We have to put this in a historical context,” he said. “Litvinenko’s last job within the FSB was heading up the anti-corruption unit…
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Marash interview
Interview with AJE‘s Dave Marash on AFP. I wouldn’t call it the most informative thing I’ve read, except for his observation about AJE’s low story count. This can either be interpreted as longer = deeper or slower = duller depending on your attention span and the quality of the reporter.
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Hello darkness, my old friend
“You may succeed in silencing one man. But a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.” Alexander Litvinenko‘s posthumous curse is unlikely to have Vladimir Putin reaching for the earbuds just yet. And no one in the Kremlin is listening out for…