Introduction One of the major events of the twentieth century, with reverberations that reach today, is the dropping of the atomic bomb…
On October 10, the BBC’s Ten O’Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine “errors” in…
On October 10, the BBC’s Ten O’Clock News led with the story that a High Court Judge had found nine “errors” in…
An Equitable Sharing of Resources? We are led to believe that Western societies are free and open. In many respects this is…
News media this week are devoting huge swathes of coverage to the report by General David Petraeus, the top US military commander…
The Lexicon Of Totalitarianism In Part 1 of this alert (http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070508_the_shining_city.php), we analysed Justin Webb’s recent BBC Radio 4 series on “anti-Americanism”,…
‘The shining city upon a hill’ was how John Winthrop, one of the early Pilgrims, described America, his new homeland. Winthrop was…
“There ain’t no time to wonder whyWhoopee! We’re all gonna die.” (‘Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die’ Rag, Country Joe and The…
It was the Daily Telegraph, not the ‘liberal’Ā Independent or Guardian, that reported accusations last week that Tony Blair is “wasting nearly…
The title above Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s column yesterday in the Independent was a real corker, joining our list of banal nuggets from the…
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