Category Archives: UK

Hacked off by double standards

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  29 October 2013 This week in Britain a trial is due to start of newspaper executives … Continue reading

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What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  28 October 2013 Britain’s extremist rightwing Prime Minister David Cameron does not mince his words. In … Continue reading

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Red carpet for China’s fat cats

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  26 October 2013 BUM’S RUSH FOR CHINA’S PAUPERS British Treasury chief George Osborne and London Mayor … Continue reading

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The Life of Others

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  23 October 2013 “A state’s appetite for collecting intelligence expands in direct relationship to its technical … Continue reading

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Big Brother is watching you

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  Paris, 21 October 2013 The big news here today is the revelation in the newspaper Le … Continue reading

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Filthy habit

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  19 October 2013 A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the … Continue reading

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Stop the world – I wanna get off!

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  17 October 2013 The World is Too Much With Us The world is too much with … Continue reading

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Japanese civilization

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  13 October 2013 Remark by a Japanese diplomat to Sir Edward Grey (1862 -1933), British Foreign … Continue reading

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The market rules, OK?

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  12 August 2013 Here we go again! Having systematically pandered to employer interests while turning a … Continue reading

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Hold the front page!

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  19 July 2013   You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. … Continue reading

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