Politics: false prophets
October 15, 2024 3:31 am Post a CommentPollsters didn’t have a good general election, almost to a man (and they were largely men) over-estimating the Labour lead,... View Article
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Politics: an unfillable void
October 14, 2024 3:46 am Post a CommentAlthough there is plenty going on to fuel the media news machine, when it comes to domestic politics, I cannot... View Article
Politics: staying on point
October 13, 2024 2:29 am Post a CommentIt is interesting to see how different media organs are handling Jenrick’s bid for the Tory leadership. Top of the... View Article
Politics: mainstream Jenrick
October 12, 2024 3:20 am Post a CommentThe Times in today’s issue is headlining its latest story on the Tory leadership contest: “Robert Jenrick faces Tory split... View Article
Politics: opening the chasm
October 11, 2024 3:44 am Post a CommentOne interesting thing about the Tory leadership contest is that it is bringing out into the open the very real... View Article
Politics: the only possible candidate
October 10, 2024 4:10 am Post a Comment“In the end”, writes The Times, “the only knowable truth was that Conservative MPs more than lived up to their... View Article
Immigration: complications
October 9, 2024 3:35 am Post a CommentThe Yorkshire Evening Post yesterday ran an article headed: “Immigrant who landed in UK on a dinghy caught tending to... View Article
Energy: winter outlook
October 8, 2024 3:44 am Post a CommentEvery year, about this time, the National Energy System Operator (Neso) publishes its “early view” outlook for the coming winter,... View Article
Middle East: the future is nuclear?
October 7, 2024 3:09 am Post a CommentThere is scarcely a media outlet which hasn’t devoted space or time to the anniversary of the Hamas barbarism in... View Article
Net-zero: it’s a steel
October 6, 2024 3:27 am Post a CommentThe Sunday Times is running a story headed: “Green steel plan hit by electricity shortage”, with the sub-heading explaining: “British... View Article
Net-zero: Starmer’s “groundnut scheme”
October 5, 2024 3:03 am Post a CommentNone of us are strangers to government stupidity and incompetence, but I have to say that the realisation that governments... View Article
Middle East: the annals of misinformation
October 4, 2024 3:37 am Post a CommentWith all that’s going on, it is difficult to pick a single issue and elevate it above the rest, affording... View Article
Ukraine: not a disaster – yet
October 3, 2024 2:49 am Post a CommentLate in the day, the legacy media collective is at last picking up on the loss of the Ukrainian town... View Article
Middle East: high stakes
October 2, 2024 3:17 am Post a CommentIf ever there was an example of the “one war at a time” syndrome, this is it. Despite the fall... View Article
Ukraine: gradually then suddenly
October 1, 2024 2:11 am Post a CommentThat the war would be over by Christmas was the famous slogan of 1914, with volunteers rushing to enlist, anxious... View Article
