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The DUP heartland: who are the supporters? – Video from The Guardian…

Brian O'Neill on August 4, 2017, 4:54 pm

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Very slick video from The Guardian, well worth a watch. From The Guardian post: East Belfast is the heartland of Protestant, unionist politics and therefore, one would believe, the natural support for Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party. The Guardian travelled to East Belfast to meet the core support for the party – which has just completed £1bn deal to prop up Theresa May’s government – and ask what they truly believe and what they want from the DUP whose main …

Metropolitan Police cave on their threat to use the Official Secrets Act…

Mick Fealty on September 21, 2011, 12:23 pm

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So the Met’s intended use of the Official Secrets Act has collapsed before it had begun… On reflection no doubt they will come to view it as a spectacularly stupid move, not least because it seems they did not even consult with Dominic Grieve, the UK Attorney General before making the threat… It contrasts with their strangely lax treatment of the initial hackgate lead… It’s a racing certainty that Mr Greive would have given them pretty short shrift… This one …

Hackgate: In praise of… The Guardian

Mick Fealty on July 11, 2011, 8:07 am

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Amidst all sorts of sonorous warnings about politicians taking over, the shortcomings of self regulation, as Toby Harnden notes, if it was British journalism that took its country (repeatedly) down into the gutter, it was British journalism that has also shown the way out: ….most notably Nick Davies and his team at the Guardian, who brought Murdoch to his knees last week. The tipping point came when the Guardian revealed that Milly Dowler’s phone had been hacked and the Telegraph …

Churnalism revisited

Aldous Duke on February 24, 2011, 11:10 pm

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I believe I’ll live to regret this, but to return to a topic touched on at the last picamp in Belfast. The Guardian reports on the new venture by the Media Standards Trust. Churnalism.com bills itself as a press release detector, allowing the user to paste an online sourced news story into a text box for cross reference against articles from the UK national press and the BBC. For those unfamiliar with the term, Wikipedia actually provides the best definition of churnalism: “A …

“In praise of… Araucaria”

Pete Baker on February 16, 2011, 12:45 pm

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A Guardian editorial today pays a well-deserved 90th birthday tribute to their brilliant cryptic crossword setter, the Reverend John Graham, MBE – aka Araucaria. And his fellow setters, Enigmatist, Paul and Shed do likewise with a genius-ly themed offering. 9 today, hooray, hooray, for 14 across 24 across, Mr 24 down Indeed. Update Fifteensquared has the complete solution to the crossword. And they point to this short Guardian article on Araucaria by Simon Hoggart. It’s not just the playful wit that delights …