investigative journalism
A really nice example of how the Sunday Times/Dispatches investigation used the web to give credibility [http://themediablog.typepad.com/the-media-blog/2010/03/how-to-con-a-greedy-mp-sunday-times-style.html] to its sting operation on those dodgy Labour politicians. The first thing people do these days when dealing with a new company of individual
france
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/IMG_2324_2.jpg] I’m not *au fait* enough with French culture to blog [Nathalie Kosciusko Morizet](http://twitter.com/nk_m)‘s speech well. (See what I did there? 🙂 ) However, I liked the photo, so here it
charity
This is depressing: > BBC NEWS | UK | Public warned of fake aid appeals [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4156409.stm]: People donating to the UK’s tsunami relief fund have been warned by police to remain vigilant to bogus collectors trying to cash in on the disaster.
andrew milton
Much as it galls my journalistic soul to give a politician any good publicity, our new Liberal Democrat councillor actually appears to be doing a good job. Distressing, I know. For one thing, the local LibDems [http://www.libdems.org.uk/] have pushed a local contact numbers sheet through the
BBC
Full Hutton details here [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3437315.stm]. So, the BBC is in trouble, standing accused of poor journalism and worse management. The Sun faces serious repercussions from its decision to publish the leak of the report this morning. We have some mild
hutton inquiry
Geoff Hoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Hoon] will not be resigning [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3400707.stm]. Sure, a man died because he was forced to give up his body armour. Sure, this was because the MoD [http://www.mod.uk] ordered their
BBC
Well, actually the Hutton report [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry] arrives in just under two weeks [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3400303.stm], with the involved parties getting 24 hours’ notice on the rest of us. Will this be a watershed for the BBC
Legal system
The Today programme woke me this morning with the level of frightening revelation that sent me scurrying for the newspapers. It wasn’t a sleep-addled hallucination. It was a piece of really bad news from Westminster about new powers for the Government in “times of crisis”. This is horrifying. [http:
crime
Boy, it didn’t take long for the politicians to start backing away from the people’s law. The MP who said he’d put the legislation forward is trying to wriggle out of it, and Prescott says that it would encourage vigalantes. Vigilantes who sit at home, hoping that
BBC
BBC Radio 4’s Today programme is the agenda-setting morning broadcast in the UK. most people in any position of power here make it their first listen in the morning. This year the show’s producers hit of the wheeze of asking the listeners to propose a law, which a
