Westmonster: “Jeremy Paxman”

Meedja on the Insanity Pills

A sad day

Westmonster is sad to report, officially, the Death of Political Journalism on the BBC. This follows last night's edition of the BBC's flagship political news programme, Newsnight, which chose to cover the LibDem leadership election with a useless analogy to the X Factor and which was then followed by a… read more…
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Meedja on the Insanity Pills

Tinfoil hattery at the CoffeeHouse

[Disclaimer: we are actually big fans of the CoffeeHouse. But this was just hilarious] Amazing scenes on last night's News At Ten, which had all of us here at the Spectator spluttering into our sherries in indignation.… read more…
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That Was The Week That Was

It's Bean a Long Week

Another Saturday, another roundup, but we're getting a bit fed up of beginning these with "another grim week for the Gord," so until otherwise stated, just take that one as read, folks. Monday dawned with another attempt on the part of the comrades to "relaunch," this time though a speech… read more…
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Ministry for Madness

Why Democracy?

Just when you thought public discourse couldn't sink to new depths of witlessness, it does just that. Proof came with one of the offerings on last night's Why Democracy? series on the Beeb. The production that concerns us was undertaken by a shower called the "Ministry of Truth" (not the excellent Unity,… read more…
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