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“It allows the Government to have more air time and get its message across to...

In “Don’t Get Fooled Again” I highlight the case of Armstrong Williams, the US columnist, who was reportedly paid $240,000 by the Bush administration to promote its education policies, with thousands...

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Orwell alert… Some background on the “Central Office of Information”

From the COI website: “Central Office of Information was established in 1946 after the demise of the wartime Ministry of Information, when individual government departments resumed responsibility for...

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ABC News and the bogus ‘Iraqi-anthrax’ claims

Writing in today’s Comment is Free, Dan Gillmore details how, in the early stages of the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, the TV channel ABC News ran a series of sensational stories claiming to have...

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Astro-turfing in Acholi-land – the role of the Catholic Church in Northern...

There must be potential for a good few PhD theses in examining the role played by the Catholic Church in recent efforts to shield Uganda’s “Lord’s Resistance Army” rebels from prosecution by the...

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“I don’t see any reason why I or my company should follow some arbitrary set...

The moustache will have to go – and let’s not even talk about the combover The FT reports that “Lord” Tim Bell’s PR company, Bell-Pottinger, has been taken on by the government of Belarus, described...

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The Cigarette Century

A cultural history of the cigarette might not seem like the most obvious choice for a compelling read. But Harvard medical historian Allan M Brandt’s extraordinary work, ‘The Cigarette Century’ is a...

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“More doctors smoke camels”!

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Bridle unbuttoned… Ofcom’s damning ruling against bogus expert who claimed...

For a number of years, a businessman with links to the asbestos industry, calling himself “Professor” John Bridle has been trying to convince the world that white asbestos poses ‘no measurable risk to...

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Un-named UK cabinet minister admits lying to the public

The BBC recounts a refreshing admission from an un-named UK cabinet minister about his conduct in public office. “There just comes a point where you say, ‘I can’t go on lying”, he is reported to have...

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“Against the evidence”– New Statesman piece

The New Statesman has just published an article I’ve written, coinciding with the publication of “Don’t Get Fooled Again” (a version read by a strange robotic voice can be found here…) Throughout the...

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Booker unbridled…

From George Monbiot’s latest column in The Guardian: So what can you say about a man who makes the same mistake 38 times? Who, when confronted by a mountain of evidence demonstrating that his informant...

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More on Booker’s bogus claims about asbestos

Alongside his more grandiose claims about the “magic mineral” (which I highlight in detail in “Don’t Get Fooled Again”), Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker has repeatedly alleged – echoing...

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Catholic aid charity Caritas claims to have stopped supporting LRA rebels,...

See also: Catholic aid charity Caritas accused of materially supporting LRA terror group From the Caritas website Caritas had provided food aid to rebel groups while the peace process that began in...

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“Professor” John Bridle’s links to the asbestos industry

When the Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker first introduced his readers to John Bridle, he described him as “UK scientific spokesman for the Asbestos Cement Product Producers Association”,...

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In his 41st article on the subject, Booker accuses the BBC of “moral...

Earlier this week the BBC’s Today Programme reported a rise in the number of teachers, doctors and nurses dying from the incurable cancer mesothelioma, having been exposed to asbestos in schools and...

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Michael Lees slaps down the Sunday Telegraph over its latest claims on asbestos

For the past six years, the Sunday Telegraph’s Christopher Booker has been trying to convince the world that white asbestos is harmless, regularly parroting the industry’s mantra that the material...

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A little bit of history repeating itself… George Monbiot on the lies told in...

From The Guardian Another anniversary, almost forgotten in this country, falls tomorrow. On November 12 1924, Edmund Dene Morel died. Morel had been a shipping clerk, based in Liverpool and Antwerp,...

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Broxtowe NG16 – the most racist postcode in Britain?

I have to admit mixed feelings about the apparent leak of the British National Party’s full membership list. It seems almost inevitable that publishing the addresses of 12,000 followers of this widely...

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Guido Fawkes savages the Telegraph’s forelock-tugging political journalists

From Guido Fawkes in The Telegraph There are a lot of bitter, jealous journalists at the Telegraph and you have behaved shamefully over the McBride story.  You even tipped off Downing Street in advance...

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Who’s calling the tune at Tory Party HQ?

From Spin Profiles In 2008, Channel 4′s Dispatches programme investigated Cameron’s Leaders Group[7]. According to Dispatches, Cameron has secured more that £50million in donations over the two and a...

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