…he can’t seem to hit one even when it’s in the room with him: The UK is one of the few major nations not to have a national forensic science institute and, in the wake of government market-based policy, no…
Tag: Slack journalism
OK, It’s Official: CiF’s Least Sympathetic Cause Has Been Found!
Sorry Babs & Sadhbh! Step right up, Arun Gupta! In the Cleveland and Chicago cases, the FBI is so desperate to manufacture terrorists it is now netting children. *gasp* Monsters! How old are these poor little mites? Five? Seven? Twelve?…
Doomed To Failure…
Pupils at primary and secondary schools across Brighton and Hove will be given “early intervention” lessons to prevent abuse. The lessons for boys and girls from six years up will teach them not to hit, to be nice and how…
The Arrogance Of ‘The Artiste’
Dorian Lynskey (music writer for the Guardian) cheers on the rude, bite-the-hand-that-feeds ‘artiste’: Ten days ago a concert-goer at the Cedar Cultural Centre in Minneapolis made the mistake of shouting out a sarcastic request for the Knack’s 1979 hit My…
Climate supergrass
No, not the Climategate 2.0 email release lat last year. Not the Himalayan glaciers, which even the Grauniad concedes are pretty much the same now as they were a decade ago (it’s still “a concern”, natch – it’ll always be…
Random Failygraph
I’ve mentioned before that since being online a lot of newspapers fill their virtual pages with crap that they would only ever put in the print versions on the very slowest of slow news days. Galleries are probably the best…
Very Informative, ‘Guardian’, Very Informative Indeed…
In the aftermath of last week’s headline-dominating court case, Vikram Dodd braves the mean streets of Eltham to see if racism still exists (not realising he could find plenty without ever leaving the ‘Guardian’ head office): Barber Kwabena Boateng, 35,…
A Worrying Prediction From You-Know-Who…
Democratic socialists, republicans, feminists, anti-racists, egalitarians are in for a bad year. Worrying? Surely, this is good news? Well, no. You see, the person making that prediction is none other than Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. And she’s hardly ever right about anything……
Oh, Canada!
Heather Mallick, columnist for the Toronto Star, is having apoplexy: Imagine being me, being asked by the Guardian to explain why my nice country, famously full of people who spend their days hewing wood and drawing water amid a stream…
Take This Column With A BIIIIIG Pinch Of Salt…
Zoe Williams writes a column so bad, I can’t improve on the excellent demolition job Tim Worstall has made of it. But a few paras stuck out: …I saw plenty of counter-arguments to that, identifying poor eating habits as a…
What’s Being Left Out Of This Story?
A family face being left homeless after their home was attacked in the city. Emma Phelps, her partner, Christopher Whittaker, and her four children moved out of their rented home in Colmon Walk, Top Valley, following two incidents. On September…
You either love it or you hate it
Not Marmite, though of course that’s true and personally I despise it with it every fibre of my being – I’ve long since been assimilated by the Australian Borg (that’s not a Collective – THIS is a Collective) into eating…