Why we posted this: Fathers-4-Justice is a high profile campaign. It encapsulates much that is wrong with modern-day protesters. More »
Themes: Campaigning / Politics / Privacy / Rights. Posted by Paul Seaman on April 10th, 2008
Why we posted this: The Daily Telegraph usefully helped us see that Jamie Oliver’s “successful” school dinners campaign may have done harm as well as good (as well as being loud-mouthed and sometimes misinformed). More »
Themes: Campaigning / Food / Media / Politics. Posted by Richard D North on April 9th, 2008
Why we posted this: Radiation risk is often exaggerated, and especially in the case of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The BBC – almost always “environmentalist” in instinct – was almost always wrong about Chernobyl for 20 years. This 2006 Horizon show was its first really decent contribution. More »
Themes: Chernobyl / Green / Interrogating the Media / Nuclear's Future. Posted by Paul Seaman on April 9th, 2008
Why we posted this: The nuclear industry is not wise to over-state its good case to supply the world’s electricity. This speech by a nuclear industry leader captures the contradiction well. More »
Themes: Green / Nuclear's Future. Posted by Paul Seaman on April 8th, 2008
Why we posted this: Here’s a controversy in the New Statesman on a vital subject. Is the world really warming? How to judge the remaining hard-line sceptics? More »
Themes: Global Warming / Green. Posted by Richard D North on April 1st, 2008
Why we posted this: These pieces show the BBC doing a bad job in an area it thinks it takes seriously. More »
Themes: Global Warming / Green / Interrogating the Media / Media. Posted by Richard D North on November 14th, 2007
Why we posted this: It’s a clue to why the BBC’s handling of climate change policy is poor. More »
Themes: Global Warming / Green / Interrogating the Media / Media. Posted by Richard D North on November 14th, 2007
Why we posted this: It’s a useful account of the dangers of propaganda documentaries More »
Themes: Campaigning / Media / Rights / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on July 6th, 2007
Why we posted this: It can matter if people let their prejudices over-ride their respect for the law. More »
Themes: Campaigning / Politics / Rights. Posted by Paul Seaman on May 24th, 2007
Why we posted this: It’s a bad bit of work by a brilliant journalist. More »
Themes: Global Warming / Green / Media / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on April 16th, 2007
