Daniel Davies has long had a beef with the government over its PR strategy towards the MMR vaccine, for which he sometimes seems to hold Ben Goldacre responsible. No, it doesn’t make much sense to me either, but as a student of the Davies oeuvre, I think it can be best understood as a system…
Read More now, where’s Hopi Sen when you need him…From yesterday’s Obscurer, a story: A senior union source told The Observer that it was clear Alexander had jumped the gun as the Treasury attempted to show it was taking a hard line on the burgeoning pensions bill. “Danny Alexander has been reined in by the Cabinet Office,” said a union source. “What he did…
Read More There is no crisis, dammitSo that Michael Lewis – you know, the one who writes articles about how stupid Icelanders were. Via The Oil and the Glory, here’s what he was saying in January, 2007, just as the last bulls in the US housing market’s dizziest bubbles finally cracked and the big plummet began. Here it is. But the…
Read More Don’t read Michael Lewis articles, do check if he’s still writingWell, if you’re the prime minister, you’re not allowed to fight back against your enemies in case you win because Gus O’Donnell says so, as long as the enemies aren’t the right kind of enemies like Coronation Street editors and UNISON hospital porters. All clear so far? When are the Tory apologies to O’Donnell going…
Read More of course, Gauck tells me my file is probably in MoscowAbsolutely, certainly, without a doubt the most important bit in the News of the World case: Last Friday, a high court judge ordered NoW to make available Mulcaire’s notes to the growing list of people suing the paper. Justice Geoffrey Vos, who is in charge of the hacking cases, ordered “rolling disclosure” to all claimants.…
Read More BritiLeaks: the best website that doesn’t exist yetThe Zimbabwe Daily News is back after eight years of repression.
Read More NewsIf you need anything to read this week, don’t stick around here. Nick Davies for, as they say, the win. Follow the links – it gets better. There’s much more detail here. This is a truly amazing story of crypto-politics, journalism, police corruption, and general depravity. Do you prefer the police/Murdoch spy who went to…
Read More If these are the compromises, the power better be goodRemember this post? Climate Progress has some answers as to how the Grauniad lost it so badly about the UEA e-mail hack.
Read More Looking back on the Guardian’s MannFAILOK, so I’ve been getting referrals from The Social Media Library, which describes itself as follows: Social Media Library contains the first ever regionally-focused directory of influential blogs read in the UK. Social Media Library’s proprietary BlogScore™ ranks each blog in terms of its influence and its visibility in search engines – providing you with…
Read More So what are the other side using?…And I feel fine. These two columns appeared on the same page of today’s Obscurer. I believe this is probably the most incoherent single page to ever appear in a British national newspaper. For a start, there’s Nick Cohen with a piece that accuses essentially everybody of being obsessed with Israel, because of the Protocols…
Read More The Observer’s comment page has been overrun by zombies