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The Impossible Peter Oborne

16th March 2021

On the face of it, Peter Oborne is impossible. It’s not possible to be educated at Sherborne independent school, at Cambridge University, to work as political editor of the Spectator, as chief political commentator of →

20 Years Of Media Lens: A Selection Of Remarkable Replies From Journalists

23rd February 2021

The Insiders In a 2002 interview with the Observer, the BBC’s John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE of Kabul, to give him his full name and title, was asked to define the ‘essential qualities’ of a journalist. →

‘Our Indifference To Ourselves’ – Beyond The ‘Virtue’ Of Self-Sacrifice – Part 1

10th February 2021

The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV. →

‘A Ghastly Future’? Israeli Apartheid, Biden, Starmer, Assange And Mass Extinction

20th January 2021

Back in 2017, before WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was silenced by Twitter, he used the platform to highlight an immutable truth: ‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’ →

Media Lens @medialens·

Excellent points throughout @Jonathan_K_Cook's latest piece.

'If the BBC makes its editorial decisions based on what rightwing and far-right newspaper tycoons think is good both for the country and the world, then how is the BBC not equally rightwing?'

James Foster @JamesEFoster·

13h

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His wife is the Queen; he didn’t have a choice.

vob @voblat·

11h

@medialens To be fair, she said this about change UK, so I am not sure what they are paying her for, but it certainly isn't insight and forethought.