Daily Archives: 12 July, 2011

They missed the Wall Street Journal….

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News of the Screws

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“The hacking scandal currently shaking Rupert Murdoch’s empire will surprise only those who have willfully blinded themselves to that empire’s pernicious influence on journalism in the English-speaking world. Too many of us have winked in amusement at the salaciousness without … Continue reading →

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Mind the gap…

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I get the feeling that my bank manager would have had a quiet word with me in 1975 and given me a severe bollocking in 1978. By 1983, I would have been bankrupt. Unless I could have found gullible people … Continue reading →

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