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Dodgy Fundraising, Media

Recording of James O’Brien’s ‘Most Admirable Person’ Surfaces

BY THE EDITOR A few years ago, my colleague Nicholas Pearce wrote about how a Torbay-based dime store huckster known as Ellie Waugh managed to get the bleeding-heart LBC shock jock James O’Brien to promote her latest deception on air. Up to £70,000.00 was raised in donations by Waugh’s con, mostly using a crowdfunder that O’Brien innocently promoted live on air during his morning radio … Continue reading Recording of James O’Brien’s ‘Most Admirable Person’ Surfaces

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Red & Green

BY QUENTIN PIGG The attack on Salman Rushdie should be cause for reflection for us all, especially among the censorious Left; a reminder that people are prepared to risk their lives for the freedoms that they too often casually jettison. There has been much talk of ‘solidarity’, ‘freedom’ and ‘tolerance’ in the wake of this most appalling attack, but warm words ring somewhat hollow when … Continue reading Red & Green

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