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The lies keep on coming

October 5, 2011 – 11:07 pm

So, the old myth about the immigrant that avoided deportation thanks to owning a cat was mentioned by Theresa May in her conference speech. Theresa May was laughed at because this never actually happened and had been debunked at the time. So far, so simple. Even the Daily Mail reported on the story – conveniently [...]

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OK, enough, this has to stop

October 5, 2011 – 8:19 pm

The Daily Mail is still publishing stories about the BBC’s non-banning of AD/BC from ever more bizarre sources: The ‘journalist’ behind this article is Simon Caldwell and if he doesn’t realise that this story is a complete lie, then he must be one of the most incompetent journalists around, or one of the most morally [...]

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Theresa May’s Littlejohn moment

October 4, 2011 – 9:50 pm

So Theresa May repeated the 2009 myth that an immigrant was allowed to stay in the UK because they owned a cat. Worryingly, her speech had – according to Left Foot Forward – been checked by no less than David Cameron, Nick Clegg, George Osborne and Danny Alexander. Oh dear. For the record (in case you [...]

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George Carey: ‘Challenged’

October 3, 2011 – 9:23 pm

George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, weighed in a couple of days ago (not sure how I missed it) on the BBC unequivocally NOT BANNING THE USE OF AD/BC: ‘Why are we letting the BBC abandon the Year of our Lord?’. This myth is interesting because we’ve all been there at the inception of it [...]

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Amanda Platell on Rory Weal

October 1, 2011 – 12:05 pm

The Daily Mail is nothing if not predictable. After Nick Clegg made a good impression during the first party leader TV debate Mail writer en masse set about doing their best to smear him – as if they had received orders from on high that they just had to work in some kind of attack [...]

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