Stephen Byers is, I think we can agree, a tool. Cab for hire? Most pimps are into self-aggrandisement. They want to sound more significant than they are not less. Personally if I were a politician on the make, I’d call myself a facilitator, the power behind the throne, the hidden lever, The Cigarette Smoking Man. [...]
Here’s a prediction: The Sunday Times’ big ‘MPs for hire’ scandal is going to be a damp squib. No one’s going to care. Sure, it’ll be all over the news for a few days, and Labour might take a temporary hit in the polls, but in the long term the effect will be zilch. The [...]
Guest post by Jon Small The myth of Climategate can be destroyed with a rudimentary understanding of scientific method Anti global warming conspiracy theorists all over the internet have been having a field day this week with the “climategate” email scandal, the release of thousands of private emails covering a thirteen year period, downloaded by [...]
Nick Davies is the award-winning investigative journalist, writer and documentary maker who recently broke the story of the News of the World phone-taps. Last year, he published the bestselling Flat Earth News, an exposé of the systemic falsehood, distortion and propaganda current in the mainstream global media. The book won plaudits from critics across the [...]
