Month: November 2006

Child Poverty And The “Defence” Budget It was the Daily Telegraph, not the ‘liberal’ Independent or Guardian, that reported accusations last week that Tony Blair is “wasting nearly £7 billion of taxpayers’ money on a →

The title above Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s column yesterday in the Independent was a real corker, joining our list of banal nuggets from the liberal media: ‘Even when our foreign policy is benevolent, it appears condescending and →

The BBC website’s reporting of the judgement was big, bold and triumphal: “Celebrations hail Saddam verdict in Baghdad’s Shia-dominated Sadr City.” (BBC news online, November 5, 2006) The following day, the New York Times website →