BY PAUL T HORGAN In all the furore following the revelation that senior BBC executives can’t get away with slandering the President of the USA without being forced to resign their jobs, it does seem as though people have forgotten that the BBC is stuffed to the gills with media professionals skilled at spinning a news story to their advantage. People may be excused this … Continue reading BBC DARVO
BY QUENTIN PIGG In 2005, a device called the Mosquito was created to combat the supposed scourge of loitering youths, piercing their ears with a sound at a frequency only teenagers could detect. I’ve always thought it showed great promise, only that it was directed at the wrong group of people. I’m not convinced loitering youths were ever much of a problem, at least not … Continue reading Witches & Warlocks
BY SAM WHITE Earlier this week it was announced that the Conservative government is planning to make changes to gender identity rules, allowing people to change their birth certificate so that it records them as the sex of their choice, or even just assign themselves a biologically impossible X in place of boy or girl, all without consulting a doctor. Currently it’s necessary to have … Continue reading Beyond Criticism
