Monthly Archives: September 2011

Words fail me

September 29, 2011 – 11:31 pm

Tweet As the world teeters on the edge of a complete economic meltdown and the Daily Mail calls for more and more austerity they then applaud this £250m idea: This is currently the lead story on the Daily Mail website, will this be their front page story tomorrow? Share or BookmarkClose Bookmark and Share This Page [...]

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Melanie Phillips and libel

September 29, 2011 – 8:50 pm

Tweet Melanie Phillips’ second email to me is really quite interesting for such a short piece of writing. She claims that my blog post is: highly defamatory and contains false allegations for which you would stand to pay me significant damages in a libel action. OK, fair enough, so immediately it leads you to think: [...]

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Publishing emails…

September 28, 2011 – 11:10 pm

Tweet I have had some criticism on Twitter and in the comments on site – not to mention from Melanie Phillips herself – for publishing contents of the emails that she sent to me. I can understand the criticism, and it is something I have never done before and I doubt I will ever need [...]

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Melanie Phillips on Winterval

September 27, 2011 – 10:57 pm

Tweet About half an hour ago I sent Melanie Phillips an email regarding her repetition of the famous ‘Winterval’ myth on which I happen to think myself quite the expert – having traced the myth back to its origins in 1997 and written extensively on its development over the years since. Amusingly Melanie Phillips has [...]

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EU does not plan to enforce 20mph speed limit

September 27, 2011 – 10:27 pm

Tweet The Mail wesbite today printed the following headline: ‘EU plans to enforce 20mph speed limits in residential zones and replace Highway Code with European laws sparks outrage’. Then, in their article – which is full of the normal enraged quotes from the standard frothing Tory rent-a-gobs – they clearly state that: today’s proposal is [...]

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