If you consider yourself of the leftwing persuasion and want a high-brow newspaper, you’ll take The Guardian; its opposite number, identifying more firmly with the Tories than Guardianistas do with Labour, would be The Daily Telegraph. At the bottom end of the scale (well, just above The Daily Star) would be The Sun for the [...]

The Daily Mail Lite, aka Metro, writes on page eight to say that Dickens had it all wrong and that, in fact, child labourers in Victorian England were happy little scamps. Admittedly, they were, according to a report of the time, in “evident poverty, want of clothing and, in many cases, sufficient food” and were [...]

Vodafone have pulled their adverts from Facebook after their skyscrapers appeared on the BNP group profile. I don’t know which one, as there are three BNP groups on Facebook. The full story is on Media Guardian.
xD.

I’ve been reading Thorstein Veblen’s book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (available for free online via Project Gutenberg), lately. George Monbiot, writing in today’s Guardian, makes an excellent point - much in line with Veblen’s theory of conspicuous consumption. The basic argument, as I understand it, is that there is not a huge amount [...]

The Spanish police have been ordered to remove from sale all copies of the satirical newspaper El Jueves as it carries a cartoon (appears right) depicting Crown Prince Philip and his wife having sex.
The cartoon refers to the proposed policy of paying €2,500 for each newborn child in an effort to increase Spain’s declining birth [...]

Sounds terribly exciting, doesn’t it? Images of a top-secret hideout, something like Dr. Strangelove, named after a dangerous animal, poised and ready to strike come up. Unfortunately, it only stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. It’s a room with lots of telephone lines. It’s not something for Sky News to get all breathless about.
xD.

I’m watching BBC News 24’s coverage of the bomb that failed to go off on Haymarket. There is, it would seem, no other news going on anywhere in the world. The regular updates on the quarter-hour aren’t happening.
Now, if this were a large story or lots of things were happening or there was new information [...]

I received this email from my good friend, Molly Mulready-Jones, over email on the sixth of June. It’s rather long, so it follows below. The same piece appeared in today’s Independent. The by-line on both is Carole Angier. I wonder what’s going on there. Did they commission this from Carole Angier? In which case, how [...]

The BBC News website reports on the Union General Meeting at the LSE SU. Sadly, people are still throwing paper, but the BBC article does make it clear that it’s only a section who like doing that and that, despite an unholy alliance of neoSinclairists and AU people, an amount of serious debate is going [...]

There is a lot of stuff on the blogosphere about the mainstream media (or MSM as the more conspiratorially-minded refer to it) and bias of the BBC. My principal sources of information are the media - I hear things on the grapevine, but that’s pretty mediated, I read Hansard and watch BBC Parliament - and [...]