An aide to the Prime Minister spreads some nasty gossip in a private email to a blogger. The blogger’s emails are hacked, the emails are leaked to another blog, and the aide resigns. It’s a juicy and very modern tale of a spin doctor getting a taste of his own medicine. But is it really [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, bbc, conservatives, davidcameron, jonathanbirch, journalism, labour, ukpolitics on April 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
Thank you to everyone who filled the Latimer room beyond capacity to hear David Loyn this evening.
David shared with us his free and frank assessment of the history, present and future of the conflicts in Afghanistan in a talk he preferred that we did not record. He gave detailed analyses of the military, [...]
Filed under: 9/11, afghanistan, bbc, clarepoliticsnews, davidloyn, foreignpolicy, history, speaker discussion, taliban on January 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph courtesy of the Soldier’s Media Center
We’re really excited about the programme of speakers we put together for Lent Term, over the next week we’ll be announcing our termcard and giving you a bit of background about our speakers. Our first speaker for Lent Term will be the journalist David Loyn.
David Loyn is the [...]
Filed under: 9/11, afghanistan, bbc, clarepoliticsnews, davidloyn, journalism, taliban on January 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
… when they contain the word faggot? Perhaps that sounds like it warrants an obvious “No†from such a keen subscriber to the Free Speech Fanclub as myself. But not really. To start with, it’s worth remembering that BBC Radio 1 is often heard by children, and denying children access to explicit lyrics is presumably [...]
Filed under: bbc, freespeech, jonathanbirch on December 18th, 2007 | No Comments »
I never cease to be amazed by the incredibly poor value offered by the TV Licence Fee. £135.50 is a lot of money for anyone. When you think of it as what it is - an almost-compulsory annual subscription to BBC television - it becomes a shockingly high price. People are always eager to point [...]
Filed under: bbc, jonathanbirch on November 26th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Test Test
Filed under: arabisraeliconflict, bbc, jackprevezer on November 5th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
