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David Miliband’s departure from the House of Commons: why political street fighters tend to get to the top 27 Mar 2013 | 09:20 pm
Nicholas Jones, 27 March 2013 A failure to avoid an ill-judged photo-opportunity – or an inability to exploit unexpected mishaps – is often a pointer to the chances of eventual success in British pol...
Nuclear stealth tax will kill the poor 26 Mar 2013 | 05:48 pm
Pete Roche, 26 March 2013 All the indications are that the British government, in its desperate attempt to entice the nuclear industry to invest in new nuclear plants, is about to give them billions ...
Evening Standard’s Budget "leak": why leaking by the state is now a way of life in Whitehall 21 Mar 2013 | 09:15 pm
Nicholas Jones, 21 March 2013 A Budget leak by the London Evening Standard – listing on Twitter the key changes to be made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne – has lifted the lid on th...
Nuclear boss wants to cut family fuel aid 17 Mar 2013 | 05:07 pm
Andy Rowell and Richard Cookson, 17 March 2013 Exclusive published in the Independent on Sunday. The boss of a company set to build two nuclear reactors in Somerset has been demanding cuts to renewa...
‘There is no way of knowing how much damage Jenner caused’ 16 Mar 2013 | 04:42 am
Mark Metcalf, 16 March 2012 This article was first posted on Big Issue in the north. The police spy recently revealed to be Mark Jenner (left) worked on a number of political activists' campaigns, r...
Downfall of Huhne and Pryce: how politicians fall victim to an overconfident media presentation 14 Mar 2013 | 04:45 am
Nicholas Jones, 14 March 2013 Chris Huhne’s downfall had a thread running through it which connected him to the disgrace of a long-line of post-war politicians. In almost every case it was the work o...
Spies and Fleet Street: BBC Radio 4's 'The MI6 and the Media' reviewed 8 Mar 2013 | 01:06 am
Paul Lashmar, 7 March 2013 Spies and the media is a good subject for investigation and the BBC’s Radio 4 Document programme launched its new series this week with a programme called ‘The MI6 and the ...
Misinformation and propaganda: British media coverage of the Bulgarian “problem” 6 Mar 2013 | 05:00 am
Biserka Anderson, 6 March 2013 On 20 February 36-year-old artist Plamen Goranov set himself ablaze in the Bulgarian seaside town of Varna in protest against the local government’s links to the mafia,...
Media communication and the consequences of war, continued 5 Mar 2013 | 11:59 pm
Joe Emersberger, 5 March 2013 You can read the first part of Joe's analysis for Spinwatch, 'Media communication and the consequences of war: counting the casualties in Iraq', here. Below is an excha...
Lord Justice Leveson’s legacy: will investigative journalists face ever greater obstacles? 28 Feb 2013 | 06:56 pm
Nicholas Jones, 1 March 2013 Investigative journalism – across both the press and broadcasting – will almost certainly suffer as a result of the Leveson Inquiry and the introduction of a new regulato...
