Category: Media

Daily Express fined for printing garbage

The Daily Express group has been ordered to pay £375,000 to seven friends of the McCann family, whose daughter Madeleine went missing in Portugal in May 2007 and has not been seen since, for...

Panorama’s narrow view on Palin

Last Monday, BBC broadcast a Panorama programme, Obama and the Pitbull: An American Tale (requires Flash), about what you’d think were the two Presidential candidates (McCain himself hardly gets a mention). Watching the trailers,...

The re-Labourisation of the NUS

Technorati Tags: nus, hind hassan Red Pepper is a magazine I read a lot, although don’t always buy; it usually contains thought-provoking political discussion which is radical without being crazy. In the current issue,...

Why the US election is everyone’s business

Jonathan Freedland: McCain or Obama? The US election result will have a huge impact on us | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Or, to use the actual headline, "This pansy-ass limey Brit won't butt...

My letter appears in Standpoint

Standpoint magazine, a new political magazine published by the Social Affairs Unit, a centre-right think tank, pubished a letter from me in response to an attack by Douglas Murray on Peter Oborne's exposé of...

Dispatches: same old, same old

The Channel 4 Dispatches programme last night returned to its theme of sending a reporter undercover to gather information on what's being taught in mosque study circles and being peddled in mosque bookshops. The...

Me on BBC London: transcript

Here is a transcript of the conversation I had with Anne Diamond, on the subject of the Daily Express complaining about Tower Hamlets council workers (in east London) will be asked not to eat...

Indigo Jo on the radio

I got through to speak to Anne Diamond (sitting in for Vanessa Feltz who's off having her gall bladder removed) today! The issue was a story picked out of the Daily Express (or Daily...

Khalifites at the New Statesman

The Khalifites are, thankfully, a group one does not encounter often as a Muslim these days, but they seem to come in waves when they appear. In the mid-1990s, during the heyday of the...

Why I welcome the Mosley privacy ruling

Technorati Tags: max mosley Yesterday Max Mosley, the president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), which manages Formula 1 racing, won £60,000 from the News of the World which printed a story about his...

Kavanagh ducks the questions

Technorati Tags: trevor kavanagh, peter oborne I know I'm a bit late on this, but a couple of the left-wing bloggers have responded to Trevor Kavanagh's idiotic response to the Dispatches documentary broadcast on...

The ugly face of the British evangelical lobby

Channel 4’s Dispatches programme tonight, In God’s Name, featured David Modell following some Christian evangelists as they went looking for “souls” on various run-down council estates, lobbied against the proposed changes to the British...