Showing posts with label Guardian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guardian. Show all posts
Monday, 3 December 2018

Matthew d'Ancona is the bigot, not me

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One time cameronista now born again as a righteous Guardian writer, Matthew d'Ancona has written one of those lazy journalist articles ...
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Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Obesity policy - snobbery dressed up as healthcare

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So, yet again, the Guardian lays into the choices of normal people : A ban on junk food advertising before the 9pm watershed is long overdu...
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Monday, 27 April 2015

In Praise of Idiots Redux

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Michael White, that most Guardianista of Guardianistas, has had a pop at the electorate : But millions more, not just the poor and d...
Monday, 29 December 2014

There is no evidence linking sports sponsorship with children drinking

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**** A few days ago "...a group of medical leaders, public health campaigners and health charities" wrote to The Guardian calli...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

The Guardianista solution to food waste - reintroduce rationing!

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**** There are times when the Guardian reads like a parody of itself. So part of me wants to roll about laughing at the woman who is so co...
Monday, 13 January 2014

Misinformation, ignorance and prejudice masquerade as a serious article about obesity.

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**** A friend of mine at university once described articles written by the likes of Enoch Powell or Tony Benn as superficially works of lo...
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Sunday, 8 December 2013

Freedom, choice, Nigel Farage and the unpleasantness of The Guardian

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**** The nannying fussbuckets have been in full cry what with plain packs, banning smoking on hospital grounds and the, almost certainly u...
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Sunday, 3 November 2013

Chris Huhne and the reality of rehabilitation

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**** Chris Huhne, ex-con, liar, cheat and former cabinet minister seems to have landed on his feet. The Guardian, that collector of left-l...
Tuesday, 10 September 2013

I'd have got away with it, if it hadn't been for the newspapers!

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**** This is the message from Chris Huhne albeit one wrapped up in a coating of self-righteous excuse-making: The News of the World spa...
Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Robots are great and we need more of them to make stuff for us...

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**** I get ever more irritated by the bonkers notion that technological advance and improvement is a bad thing for the economy. You see it...
Monday, 3 June 2013

"Microlives": I'm pretty certain this is utter tripe...

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**** ...from the Guardian (where else) with some people's wonderful new 'live forever' theory: The Norm Chronicles, a new b...
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Monday, 28 January 2013

Yep, the Guardian does want poor people to stay poor.

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**** As I observed the other day after a piece of nonsense about Peru and asparagus, the Guardian really does think that poor folk in the ...
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Wednesday, 16 January 2013

So folk who read the Guardian want poor people to stay poor?

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**** Or so it seems : But in the case of quinoa, there's a ghastly irony when the Andean peasant's staple grain becomes too e...
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Sunday, 4 November 2012

How 'denormalisation' works...the case of drinking

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**** You start with a little anecdote : On a Friday night in the City a young professional woman collapses on the floor of the bar whe...
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Thursday, 6 September 2012

So folk music is conservative after all!

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“Almost everything appertaining to the circumstances of a nation, has been absorbed and confounded under the general and mysterious word...
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Advice to the Internet from an old mail order guru

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**** I was reading an incredibly complacent interview with Alan Rushbridger, the Guardians editor. There was a hint - indeed the very fai...
Saturday, 7 July 2012

The Guardian don't seem to know the meaning of democracy...

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**** The Guardian is once again burbling about democracy, this time on the back of a report by some people called Democratic Audit. M...
Saturday, 21 April 2012

On taxes, morals and practicality

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**** Once again tax has become a matter of moral debate. Rather than asking the sensible and practical questions – “how do we raise the...
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Monday, 19 December 2011

The lunatics are definitely in charge at the Guardian!

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**** Communism wasn't all bad, you know. Forget the mass murder, the suppression of dissent, the imprisoning of opponents, and the imp...
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