Tag: commentariat
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The following text appeared in this morning’s MediaGuardian email, referring to a story in both the Telegraph and the Mirror: The BBC’s inquiry into John Humphrys’ alleged comments about ministers being lawyers amounted to a single phone call, the Today presenter claimed yesterday. While it is a simple matter of record that a number of…
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In my post on Sunday, I forgot to include a fairly important point: The Left abuses liberalism at is peril. Despite the tendency for socialism to disregard individual liberty, I have no doubt that the majority of left-wingers don’t want to see us end up with a Police State. Yet every time they portray negative…
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Nick Cohen has written another of his hack pieces in the Observer today about how wicked “liberals” are blaming the Iraq War for terrorist atrocities, and how this proves they’re a dreadful shower, etc. As Matt points out, this contrasts with his pre-Iraq War pieces when he condemned “liberals” for supporting a war in Iraq,…
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I have a love-hate opinion of Spiked. On the one hand I will accept that it occasionally has good articles which challenge received wisdom. I’m a great fan of iconoclasm. However, there is a difference between iconoclasm and affecting iconoclasm, and all too many of the articles on it are precisely that. Shirley Dent, for…