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Latest Corbyn hit-piece: he earns MP’s salary

If I hadn’t seen for myself that this article “exposing” Jeremy Corbyn was published on the Daily Telegraph’s website, I would have assumed it was a spoof from The Onion – an even more preposterous one...

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Brexit and the diseased liberal mind

The enraged liberal reaction to the Brexit vote is in full flood. The anger is pathological – and helps to shed light on why a majority of Britons voted for leaving the European Union, just as earlier...

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Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn – again

This is way beyond a face-palm moment. Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party’s supposed “anti-semitism crisis” – in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right,...

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Guardian: Iraqis think Blair made a ‘mistake’

It will be no surprise to readers of this blog that I believe Tony Blair should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for assisting George Bush in attacking Iraq in 2003. The Chilcot inquiry,...

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Study exposes BBC’s deep anti-Corbyn bias

A fortnight ago the London School of Economics published a report showing that uniformly the British press had misrepresented and denigrated Jeremy Corbyn from the moment he won the Labour party...

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Facebook will follow in Murdoch’s footsteps

The row about Facebook censoring the iconic photograph of a naked Vietnamese girl, Kim Phúc, fleeing a US napalm attack has led to justified outrage. But it is also helping to solidify deeply misguided...

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How we let the media damage our psyches

Ostensibly this 4-minute video is about the way publishing corporations design women’s magazines to damage the psyches of half the population. These magazines’ content, most of it formally advertising...

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Amanda Knox: a story of media depravity

I thoroughly recommend the new documentary Amanda Knox to anyone interested in either human nature or the role of the media – which should include most of us. Here is the chance to hear the main...

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Guardian front page channels Orwell’s 1984

Reading the “liberal” press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow. Two reports on today’s front page of the...

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Adam Curtis: another manager of perceptions

Adam Curtis’ new, near three-hour documentary HyperNormalisation, showing on BBC iplayer, is being garlanded with predictable praise from liberal commentators. As ever, Curtis joins the dots in...

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Clinton’s defeat and the ‘fake news’ conspiracy

There is an astounding double standard being applied to the US presidential election result. A few weeks ago the corporate media were appalled that Donald Trump demurred on whether he would accept the...

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Is the CIA editing your newspaper?

Here is a great overview by Ed Jones of why corporate media are the arch-exponents of “fake news”. The media are overwhelming owned and controlled by billionaires and gargantuan corporations, who...

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Is the BBC still lying over Syria footage?

Robert Stuart, a tenacious blogger, has been picking away at a scab the BBC would rather leave firmly in place. His forensic research concerns an edition of the BBC’s flagship investigative current...

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A disavowal of Monbiot’s witch-hunt

George Monbiot is off again on one of his intermittent witch-hunts against the left – on this occasion, against anyone questioning whether the Syrian regime was responsible for the chemical weapons...

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Media can’t hide that they’re in bed with May

This is the first British general election in decades in which there is anything approaching a real political choice. For that reason, even the most liberal elements within the corporate media are...

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The real reason Britons will vote for Scrooge

Trust Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian to ask the most pertinent question of the coming British general election and then fail to offer the one answer staring him in the face. After examining the...

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Guardian mourns Corbyn’s polling surge

It is quite extraordinary to read today’s coverage in Britain’s supposedly left-liberal newspaper the Guardian. In the “man bites dog” stakes, the day’s biggest story is the astounding turn-around in...

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MI6, Theresa May and the Manchester attack

You would think that, as the reverberations from last week’s Manchester terror attack continue to be felt, the UK media would be scouring through the literal and figurative rubble trying to find leads....

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Guardian staff come out of closet for Corbyn

Dear Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Congratulations on coming out of the Guardian closet and admitting that you have been a secret Jeremy Corbyn admirer all along. Your column, “I used to be a shy Corbynite...

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