Posts Tagged ‘ Daily Mail ’

Here’s what’s really wrong with the internet – and it isn’t just some clunky computer coding | Hadley Freeman

March 7, 2012
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Here’s what’s really wrong with the internet – and it isn’t just some clunky computer coding | Hadley Freeman

So a computer whizz thinks he knows what the worst thing about the internet is. Has he never seen a Twitter feud? Happy 20th birthday, email! Next week – on 11 March, if you’re planning a party – it will be precisely two decades since the first email with...

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Here’s what’s really wrong with the internet – and it isn’t just some clunky computer coding | Hadley Freeman

March 6, 2012
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Here’s what’s really wrong with the internet – and it isn’t just some clunky computer coding | Hadley Freeman

So a computer whizz thinks he knows what the worst thing about the internet is. Has he never seen a Twitter feud? Happy 20th birthday, email! Next week – on 11 March, if you’re planning a party – it will be precisely two decades since the first email with...

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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

February 13, 2012
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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

The latest tabloid attempt to paint ‘preacher of hate’ Abu Qatada as a bloater certainly puts his lesser sins in perspective Lost in Showbiz is aware that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but is something similar true of terrorism? Or is terrorism showbiz for ugly politicians? Or politics for...

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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

February 12, 2012
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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

The latest tabloid attempt to paint ‘preacher of hate’ Abu Qatada as a bloater certainly puts his lesser sins in perspective Lost in Showbiz is aware that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but is something similar true of terrorism? Or is terrorism showbiz for ugly politicians? Or politics for...

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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

February 11, 2012
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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

The latest tabloid attempt to paint ‘preacher of hate’ Abu Qatada as a bloater certainly puts his lesser sins in perspective Lost in Showbiz is aware that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but is something similar true of terrorism? Or is terrorism showbiz for ugly politicians? Or politics for...

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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

February 10, 2012
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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

The latest tabloid attempt to paint ‘preacher of hate’ Abu Qatada as a bloater certainly puts his lesser sins in perspective Lost in Showbiz is aware that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but is something similar true of terrorism? Or is terrorism showbiz for ugly politicians? Or politics for...

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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

February 9, 2012
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Abu Qatada’s weight and the showbizification of terror

The latest tabloid attempt to paint ‘preacher of hate’ Abu Qatada as a bloater certainly puts his lesser sins in perspective Lost in Showbiz is aware that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but is something similar true of terrorism? Or is terrorism showbiz for ugly politicians? Or politics for...

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Joyce McKinney and the battle of the tabloids – feature

October 16, 2011
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Joyce McKinney and the battle of the tabloids – feature

Joyce McKinney is one of those names that for people of a certain age opens a doorway into the past. To mention it is to be transported back to the 1970s, when there were only three TV channels, British food was awful, sex was naughty and Fleet Street was still the home of national...

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Joan Collins: my supermarket encounter with broken Britain

August 25, 2011
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Joan Collins: my supermarket encounter with broken Britain

Joan Collins: has stuff to say Photograph: Erik Pendzich/Rex / Rex Features And so to our nation’s search for community elders it can believe in, which appears to have reached its conclusion with the publication of a Daily Mail article entitled “How I’d Sort Out Broken Britain – by Joan Collins“. As you may...

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