Daily Archives: June 4, 2010

You Know You’re Bad When…

June 4, 2010 – 3:45 pm

Tweet Bill Akass, managing Editor of the News of the World, today confirmed on Radio 4 that he turned down the Lord Triesman sting because: We were not satisfied that it was justified and we felt the information was thin. It didn’t meet the tests which we set ourselves for justification… Is it in the [...]

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Littlejohn’s Need to Dehumanise

June 4, 2010 – 10:26 am

Tweet In December 2006 Richard Littlejohn wrote his now infamous piece on the murder of five Ipswich women who happened to work as prostitutes. He argued that in their field of work ‘death by strangulation is an occupational hazard’ and that: in the scheme of things the deaths of these five women is no great [...]

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