The Grandiosity Of Modern Journalism
From Vice we get a statement that really does misunderstand what this journalism, media, thing is all about:
Journalism is not supposed to be a...
Why Don’t Men Get Called Diva?
Apparently the rare usage of the word diva as applied to men shows how deeply patriarchal our society is, how demeaning to women and...
Well Done To Poppy Noor, A Masterly Dig At The Guardian In The Guardian
I might just have to change my opinion of Poppy Noor here. Normally she trots out the usual regurgitation of currently fashionable points when...
Owen Jones – We’re Losing So Up The Electoral Bribes!
We might in fact blame the headline writer here rather than Jones himself:
Labour must turbocharge its offer to young people. Britain’s fate depends on...
Sorry Polly, This Shows That Inequality Is A Good Thing, Not Bad
Polly Toynbee has one of her pearl clutchers today, it seems that where people do actually have a meritocracy and its associated inequality then...
Wringing Money Out Of The Newspaper Carcass
Jack Shafer writes in the center-left Politico about “vulture capitalist” Randall Smith of Digital First Media, the owner of the Denver Post and several...
Brett Stephens might have a point you know
As the novelist Gary Shteyngart wrote on Twitter: “Woke up to a New York Times op-ed about one group being intellectually superior to others...
How Stupid Do You Have To Be To Write For The Guardian?
So, there's a lovely exhibition about the Eskimos going on. Or, OK, the Inuit, which isn't quite the same thing. Eskimo being an old...
What Joy, Muphry’s Law Spotted In The Wild At The Mail
Murphy's Law we all know, whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Muphry's Law is the lesser known corollary, that in any article complaining...
Dawn Foster Insists Polly Toynbee Should Retire – The Column Blocker!
That's probably the way we should read Dawn Foster today. How very dare the Reine Regnante of the socially caring left continue to block...