Brexit is coming, and it means Brexit and a cosy-up to Donald J Trump, but now there’s a tiny window where MPS could vote against triggering Article 50. So should they? Are you worth it? Ditching the EU was never going to be an easy matter since the British economy has become ever more tangled within it for over […]
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A storm erupted online at 10:33pm on the 25th of January (UK time) over Curzon Cinemas hiring out their cinema for a private screening of the controversial movie Vaxxed, which included a discussion afterwards with the disgraced Andrew Wakefield. Andy Lewis didn’t waste time writing on his Quackometer blog about the dangers of Cursor’s decision to show […]
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Comment, Ethics, Politics
Section 40 – Can Anyone Be the Fascist Press?
18 Jan , 2017
Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 consultation is over, and what a feast of misrepresentation, negative tropes and shouty non-sequiturs it has been for “The Press”. Anyone arguing in its favour is just naive, apparently.
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