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Working mother scapegoated on Newsnight while bankers rifle world finances

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Hopefully we’ve all seen the BBC Newsnight clip (above) and signed the petition demanding an apology for serious misrepresentation of Shanene Thorpe, portraying her as a benefit scrounger. What started off innocently enough as an investigation into “what it’s like being a working mum struggling to pay rent and housing costs” turned into an interrogation […]

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Military industrial complex Skynet rewiring our brains

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Not another radio drama about soldiers. Our 21st Century militarised culture seems to be shaping up with the help of an increasing number of army plays on BBC Radio 4 to go with the tedious humanisation of business drummed into us in programmes such as The Apprentice, Dragons Den, anything with Evan Davies, Secret Millionaire

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Yet more depravity at the top: Jeremy Clarkson’s joke

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How depraved is our ruling elite: No 2 Ah, yes. A big Number two. Then there’s the BBC okaying Jeremy Clarkson’s Pinochetesque outburst calling for strikers to be taken out and shot in front of their families. Under pressure from 21,000 complaints, the public corporation then told him to apologise, exercising more punitive authority over

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BBC jumps the orientalist shark: Fu Manchu in Edinburgh

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Even Radio 4 is at it. Hard on the heels of last week’s Sherlock oriental hate-fest, my beloved BBC Radio 4 has just broadcast someone called Miles Jupp presenting a thinly disguised bit of sinophobia celebrating one of the most notorious exercises in colonialist literature: Fu Manchu In Edinburgh. While it’s valid to explore the

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