Conquest of the Useless

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Twenty years on, the British press and wider media are still making the same stinking excuses for the Iraq War and those who started it.
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Another instalment of weekly recommendations and miscellaneous items.
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The British media wants you to think it's learned the lessons of Iraq; it hasn't...
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Twenty years ago it was battered over Iraq, now it's bruised over the Lineker 'affair' and leaked emails show the BBC has been bullied again.
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Up yours, media whores! The death of Sun ‘legend’ and liar Tom Petrie provokes the usual outbreak of self-aggrandisement from the Murdoch press.
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The right-wing press has failed to score in the latest game but the BBC is still being beaten daily.
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Another instalment of weekly recommendations and miscellaneous items.
Tim Davie has lost the dressing room at the BBC; it was inevitable that the corporation’s Tory leadership would fold to the pressure from right wing…
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Kathy Burke's new documentary has revived a persistent internet myth and all-too-real comments from Chris Moyle's arrogant and sleazy heyday.
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Newspapers so keen on censoring the usual f-word are equally quick to damp down mentions of "fascism". Liberals? They offer the same heartfelt…
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The press calls Charles Salvador aka. Charles Bronson "Britain's notorious prisoner" but who gave him that label? And should it mean he's never allowed…
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For many journalists, columnists, and commentators, propaganda is so commonplace they can't even see it.
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