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Two jabs from Johann
A look at how Johann Hari sold his scare story about weight-loss drugs to The Daily Mail and Times...
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Huw knows what happened
The Sun's crowing over a story that fell apart and the BBC thinks it can just move on...
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Observing The Spectator's Lowest Life
Lloyd Evan's grim column is another entry into the magazine's annals of awfulness.
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Excessive Truss issues
Whether their reviewers are mocking or mollifying, the British press is giving Liz Truss' book something it doesn't deserve – attention.
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All The Newsnight's Women
Netflix's interview drama was almost as puffed up as the Prince at its centre.
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March 2024

Ofcom closes barn door, points at the horse in the distance.
GB News has breached the rules again and the regulator is really, really going to do something about it next time.
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TalkTV’s broadcast shutdown isn’t about money…
… it’s about influence and ageing. Rupert Murdoch simply found it too embarrassing.
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The Enemy Within (Remix)
Rishi Sunak reheated an old 80s hit with a fascist backbeat and the opposition and most of the media joined in on backing vocals.
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February 2024

If Starmer wins, The Sun won't be wot won it...
... and it never was. The myth of Murdoch the Kingmaker most serves the man himself.
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The Paul Marshall Plan
Marshall's extremist views are a perfect fit for The Daily Telegraph, yet the rest of the media ignore them or cling to a nostalgic idea of a paper…
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Furrowed brows at the Clown College
Political journalists did a bad job of pretending farcical scenes in Parliament didn't delight them.
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How are non-U?
On the Marmite history of Nancy Mitford-style commandments on what's posh and what's not...
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