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The Worcester Libertarian: August 2012
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012. The Slow Death of Investigative Journalism. With the public outrage over phone hacking, the spectacle of Leveson, and the furore over The Sun’s. Printing nude pictures of Prince Harry, there has been some debate of the role of the press in the UK, and whether investigative journalism is now in terminal decline. Traditionally it has been the job of reporters to question those who hold positions of power, and to hold them to account on behalf of society. Investigative journalism ...
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The Worcester Libertarian: The Slow Death of Investigative Journalism
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012. The Slow Death of Investigative Journalism. With the public outrage over phone hacking, the spectacle of Leveson, and the furore over The Sun’s. Printing nude pictures of Prince Harry, there has been some debate of the role of the press in the UK, and whether investigative journalism is now in terminal decline. Traditionally it has been the job of reporters to question those who hold positions of power, and to hold them to account on behalf of society. Investigative journalism ...
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The Worcester Libertarian: April 2012
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Friday, 20 April 2012. The Falklands Conflict: Jingoism, Censorship and the Media. Max Hastings described the Falklands War as “a freak of history, almost certainly the last colonial war that Britain will ever fight.” The conflict was complicated by the fact that it took place at the height of the cold war. The British government, preoccupied with the Soviet Union, had reduced the size of the Royal Navy, reconfiguring it as a mainly submarine force concentrated in the Northern Atlantic. The MOD’s c...
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The Worcester Libertarian: January 2012
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Saturday, 28 January 2012. Beware the False Prophets. The world changed in 2011. It was a year when people-power allied to new technologies overthrew elites, with Facebook revolutions heralding an Arab Spring and toppling aging or ailing dictatorships. But it would be wrong for the Western Democracies to think they are detached from these events. As Greece has so clearly shown, even relatively modern states are in peril, given enough economic instability, a furious electorate and weak political leadership.
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The Worcester Libertarian: In praise of the British Camp
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Friday, 13 May 2011. In praise of the British Camp. There is something strangely majestic about the Malvern Hills, which belie their diminutive stature in purely geographical terms. These hills seem to possess more than the simple sum of their parts. Perhaps it is their sheer and unexpected rise from the Severn Valley on the eastern flank, or maybe it is the ridged linear straight-edge of peaks, which contrasts with one’s expectations of a rolling and gentle English countryside. Century poet Lord Macaula...
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The Worcester Libertarian: Hacking scandal reaches 'tipping point'
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Wednesday, 6 July 2011. Hacking scandal reaches 'tipping point'. A dark brooding storm cloud is gathering over News International's imposing fortress at Wapping and senior officers at the Metropolitan Police are assumedly watching with some unease, as inappropriate relationships between the two organisations begin to be uncovered. The revelations that Milly Dowler's phone was hacked by the. News of the Screws. The actions of News International's staff shows such contempt for the law, basic human decency ...
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The Worcester Libertarian: December 2011
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011. 2011: A review of the year's news. The Arab Spring; intervention in Libya; the Japanese tsunami; the death of Bin Laden; phone hacking; riots; and the Euro crisis, for news junkies like me, 2011 has been the year that kept on giving. To band around terms like tumultuous or world-changing can be a foolhardy pastime. It leaves a writer open to the charge of hyperbole, vulnerable to events. It has been a year of protest. In many ways it reminded me of camping holidays in Cornwall.
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The Worcester Libertarian: Last Empire by Gore Vidal
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Saturday, 3 September 2011. Last Empire by Gore Vidal. I’ve recently read Gore Vidal's ‘Last Empire’, a very interesting book which has been constructed by collating a collection of essays published from 1992 to 2000. The book covers a variety of subject matter; however it was the political content which most interested me. Vidal predictably promotes his sceptical and disdainful social critique on American politics and government. To see how the Grand Old Party’s activists and politicians have beha...
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The Worcester Libertarian: September 2011
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Saturday, 3 September 2011. Last Empire by Gore Vidal. I’ve recently read Gore Vidal's ‘Last Empire’, a very interesting book which has been constructed by collating a collection of essays published from 1992 to 2000. The book covers a variety of subject matter; however it was the political content which most interested me. Vidal predictably promotes his sceptical and disdainful social critique on American politics and government. To see how the Grand Old Party’s activists and politicians have beha...
