Carys Nally and Samuel Kerr BBC Newsnight BBC The truth about tens of thousands British veterans who tested nuclear bombs has been “covered up for decades”, the mayor of Greater Manchester has alleged. Andy Burnham told BBC Newsnight the government must act while the remaining survivors are still alive. In the 1950s and 60s, servicemen...
I keep banging on the idea that modern journalism is all about The Narrative™. Everything you see and hear is motivated. Sometimes it is completely true, often it is incomplete and grossly distorts reality, and almost as often, what you are seeing and hearing is a hoax. In other words, even when they are telling...
The president uses it prolifically. Read full article at source...
Every institution gets corrupted to some degree over time. As with the Fed, managers and executives of even the best institutions have a dual mandate: ensure that the ostensible purpose of the organization is pursued, AND ensure that the institution thrives. On top of that, everybody in the institution wants to further their own interests,...
Moyes also responded to recent comments by Abdoulaye Doucoure, who is one of 13 players out of contract at the club this summer. Midfielder Doucoure, who has two caps for Mali, spoke on former goalkeeper Ben Foster’s podcast this week and said there had been “no talks” over a new deal. The 32-year-old went on...
One of the many, many proofs that the media does a horrible job of keeping Americans informed is that most people never had a good sense of just how feckless Biden’s Gaza policies were. To be fair, most people’s opinions were driven by ideological/sympathetic commitments that existed prior to any of Biden’s actions, but even...
Note:I had intended to write a new reflection for this weekend, but my main computer stopped working on Friday night. Instead, I hope you will enjoy this reflection from 2016, and keep that timing in mind when I write about the film ‘Risen’ I still highly recommend it, too. This morning’s Gospel reading is John...
Not every gripe that Europeans have with Donald Trump stems from his bluntness when he tells them the truth–Danish people aren’t wrong when they say Trump is being rude to demand that they hand over Greenland to the US, even if Trump believes that the Danes can’t defend the strategically-located territory. Still, the hatred for...
Verstappen’s radio messages during the race clearly indicated he did not approve of the penalty he was given, but he was warned to keep his thoughts to himself. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said he felt the penalty was “very harsh” and asked rhetorically: “Whatever happened to ‘let them race on the first lap?’...
BBC Listen to Pallab read this article There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show us the scale of the Universe and our place in it. One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for...
Watch: Jean Charles de Menezes’ mum Maria, his brother Giovani and cousin Vivian say the loss “echoes in our hearts” The 80-year-old mother of a man shot dead in a Tube station by police who mistook him for a terror suspect says she will continue to fight for him and “show the world the truth”....
Family handout Susan was no more than puzzled when she saw the first results from her home DNA testing kit. Now a woman in her mid 70s, she had never known much about her grandfather, and paid for the private test to see if it threw up anything unusual. “I did notice there was a...