Glass 1% empty is what I’m going to brand posts which look at the media’s habit of taking what to my mind is clearly a good-news story, then somehow finding the grain of bad news in it and focusing on that. This happens rather often, so I won’t be covering them all.
Friday’s Guardian reported [...]
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Did anyone responsible for any part of this front page actually seriously mean anything they wrote?
It looks like one of those mocked-up spoofs you find used as the group picture on anti-Mail/anti-Express Facebook groups.
I particularly like their proud trumpeting that they are “10p CHEAPER THAN THE DAILY MAIL”. I think it says something about also [...]
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I realise my track record on influencing people’s voting choices isn’t great, but for the record I wholeheartedly agree with Dave Cole’s conclusions on next month’s David Davis-induced by-election.
There are no other relatively mainstream, left-wing, liberal parties standing against Davis, and his support for the death penalty and what might abbreviatedly be called Section 28-day [...]
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Just saw Jimmy Cliff at Glastonbury hailing the crowd thus:
Greetings, Glastonbury, London, England!
That’s really pushing the boundary.
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This is the first of what might become a series of reviews – definitely not all as excessively detailed as the below – of TV programmes which I feel are unlikely to be reviewed elsewhere. Possible future contenders include BBC Parliament’s The Record, BBC News’s Click, and BBC Two’s post-Newsnight weather bulletin.
"Your News" is [...]
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On Wednesday night, as evidenced in the photo above (thanks Sunny), I attended the Liberal Conspiracy/Comment is Free (CiF) Blog Nation event for bloggers of the liberal-left persuasion, at the Guardian Newsroom.
I’ve been to the Newsroom for a number of its exhibitions over the past few years, including a great tribute to their sadly missed [...]
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I’ve been doubly gobsmacked by the unfolding tale of Heinz’s ‘gay kiss’-incorporating mayonnaise advert.
First, I was taken aback by the large number of complaints that had been attracted by a simple peck on the lips between a two men in an advert. Which century is this? Where did so many homophobes suddenly find the Advertising [...]
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Today’s Guardian G2 supplement asks: is the fuel crisis a blessing in disguise?
As with most questions posed by newspapers, or indeed in life generally, there’s no one simple answer; in some ways, it is a blessing, but in others the disguise is perhaps rather too good.
I can recall reading not that long ago – but [...]
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Hello. I’m accustomed to introducing myself as Mr. Stop Boris, but I’m hoping this blog marks an end to that practice.
"Pushing the boundary" doesn’t really work as an identity, though, so perhaps I’ll have to retain the "Mr.". We’ll see.
Anyway, I’m starting this blog because, frustration and failure aside, I rather enjoyed my time writing [...]
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