Charlotte Church – Kicking Against the Pricks
I’ve written elsewhere about the effortlessness with which the BBC’s Question Time programme seems to habitually generate controversy. Regular guests, such as
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The UK press and the Labour leadership contest
It’s increasingly apparent that the Labour Party is muddling through a period of existential crisis. This week’s welfare bill debacle,
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The 2015 Reuters institute digital news report has just been published. It contains, according to Matthew Ingram in Fortune magazine,
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Last week, the ubiquitous social media giant Facebook announced that it had launched a mobile app called Instant Articles wherein news stories provided
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So that’s that, then. The pollsters got it wildly wrong and the UK did not wake up on Friday to
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It’s not often that you see journalists openly criticise each other. For sure, there is the well documented ideological antipathy
Read moreBattle buses and staged events – the 1983 General Election campaign
Learn from the master, chaps. PA David Cameron seems to have been channelling the spirit of Margaret Thatcher in
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The week that four senior journalists from The Sun were cleared at the Old Bailey on all charges relating to paying
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For a terrible moment last week, it seemed that the biggest talking point in the world of newspapers was going
Read moreQuestion Time for a change?
Last night’s episode of BBC1’s long running political panel show, Question Time was a comparatively sedate affair. Coming as it
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