Monthly Archives: January 2011

The ‘Thought Police’

January 30, 2011 – 3:59 pm

A lot has been written about the sacking of Andy Gray and the forced resignation of Richard Keys, with some papers printing articles suggesting that men are the real victims of sexism, punished for being the perpetrators of it whilst no-one has sacked the Loose Women team. You can read an excellent blog post here [...]

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Daily Mail deals with domestic abuse

January 26, 2011 – 9:03 pm

The Supreme Court has ruled that courts should recognise psychological domestic abuse as well as just physical violence: Lady Hale said that ‘violence’ can also include ‘strength or intensity of emotion, fervour and passion’. She said the legal understanding of domestic violence had moved on ‘from a narrow focus upon battered wives and physical contact’. [...]

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Winterval Myth & Islamophobia to be covered by Radio 4

January 26, 2011 – 6:05 pm

Tomorrow at 12.30 on BBC Radio 4, Face the Factswill be covering the Winterval Myth during a programme examining how the British press is contributing to Islamophobia. I was interviewed for the programme because of my essay on the Winterval Myth and the fact that the EDL (supposedly a peaceful organisation protesting against extreme Islam) threatened to [...]

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Bias

January 25, 2011 – 10:46 pm

According to his website – currently not operational for some reason – Richard Littlejohn: has no party political affiliations and believes journalists should be in a state of permanent opposition and scepticism, opposed to vested interests of all political persuasions and fiercely protective of civil liberties. His job is to sit at the back and [...]

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The Daily Mail and the Gay Agenda

January 24, 2011 – 7:36 pm

/* This post originally appeared on my old blog on 30 April 2009. As part of the migration of content from my old blog I may occasionally post them here as a current post if I feel they are relevant. Due the the constant themes / narratives in the Daily Mail old posts often cover [...]

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