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21 years on from the Section 2a fight

February 17, 2021

How the media covered the repeal of Section 28 / Section 2a in Scotland.

The unwelcome political return of Mr Megabus

September 4, 2014

The No campaign in the Scottish Referendum may have issues with its sexist and patronising adverts, but Sir Brian Souter’s appearance on the BBC last night serves as a reminder that the Yes campaign has its fair share of undesirable views. Let’s go back to 1999/2000 and what the Scottish Daily Mail editorial called: Labour’s […]

Yahoo’s social media fail

August 20, 2012

Today Yahoo! news is scraping the bottom of a barrel even the Daily Mail or a Five Live phone in would avoid. For its first ever #HashOut ‘live discussion show’ it is inviting people to suggest musicians who deserve to be jailed like Pussy Riot have been in Russia. If this is the standard of […]

This is my country, not the Daily Mail’s

August 6, 2012

More Olympics PR highlights including Hope Not Hate, NBC (again), David Beckham and the Wiggo-Phone.

Blacks and homosexuals. All the same to Melanie Phillips?

January 24, 2011

Using a quick find and replace on Word, you can establish just how bigoted Melanie Phillips’ most recent diatribe against gay rights really is. Had her article read as the doctored version does below – replacing gay and homosexual for a ‘black’ equivalent – would the Daily Mail sack her? Probably not. Yes, blacks have […]

TweetMobs will not always be a power for good

October 19, 2009

There have been more words written subsequent to the Jan Moir article on Stephen Gately’s death than she’s ever written in her life. So there’s no need for me to recount how error ridden her article and subsequent reply are (Charlie Brooker in the Guardian, Daniel Finklestein in the Times and even Janet Street Porter […]