Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#1
When the Press Association have to row back on their own stories, one ought to be questioning the quality of the journalism. This smacks of red top tabloid journalism and lacks the integrity the public should expect from our supposedly FREE PRESS. Did they just go with a press briefing and issue a sensationalised release without any due diligence?
The amount of nerve agent used in the Salisbury attack should probably be 'characterised in milligrams', the OPCW has said (Ben Birchall/PA) . Source:
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/watchdog-rows-back-on-salisbury-nerve-agent-claim/ar-AAwJTdk?ocid=ientpJust because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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#2
As has been pointed out before on the forum, the whole incident makes no sense at all. Not so much as a riddle engulfed in a mystery and surrounded by an enigma as a whole stream of contradictions and half truths. I wonder how long it will take until the truth is revealed.
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Weird Granny Slater
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#3
The truth is out there. But if the government wanted to make it easy for us to find out, then they wouldn't have gagged the mainstreams (see C4's Alex Thomson's tweet of 12 March
https://mobile.twitter.com/alextomo below). I would like to think this explains the peculiarly compliant stance of the the state and corporate media, but I doubt it.
We really should have had a 'Free Yulia Skripal' Sun-led campaign by now.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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#4
Whilst I'm all for a free press I'm disgusted that this weekend's Guardian would suggest that gays should not use the internet.
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#5
The Sacoolas Affair: the blistering new inaction-packed work of non-investigative journalism not published by Keep It Zipped Press in a special invisible-wrapper edition. Available in no newsagent anywhere near you.
What they said:
‘Never heard of it’ BBC News
‘We thought we liked it, then we were told not to’ Sky News
'Who do you think we are, Woodstein and Bernward?' The Timely Telemailexpress
'I don't believe it' Len le Carré-Fleming
With a plot that’s pretty obvious to everyone with his head screwed on, yet will flummox your free speech Guardians, it’s got more layers of deception than you can shake a digital listening device at.
What connects a poor boy on a bike who has no mouth but still must scream, an ‘RAF base’, an American ‘diplomat’ and his on-the-run wife, a double-tongued Foreign Minister, an ambidextrous Prime Minister, a duplicitous President, a 'special' relationship, and the boy’s indomitable parents?
The Sacoolas Affair. Don't tell everyone. Someone's listening. No-one's immune.
Get it now, if you can find it.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#6
Mrs Sacoolas gets the CPS treatment, after Raab had a 'review' that told him what he already knew about her diplomatic immunity:
she didn't have it. But he got her spirited away, and she won't be coming back from the US to embarrass him. To say it was an outright lie would be such a waste of an adverb.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50870459
I'm sure the battle-weary investigative journalists in broadcast media are right on this. Right now. As I write. This very minute. We'll hear about it any time soon... Or maybe they're working on something else. Like Skripal. Or Syrian chlorine.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#7
or, what peanuts to buy, salted or dry roasted.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#8
What I find sadder is that you will often find people stating things from the Sun or Mail and believing it to be factual
One of locals spent years running down anyone who tried to do something for the town
All that does for anyone considering standing for the local councils was to discourage them from doing so
Thankfully the dubris article has all but gone and many over the years told me they had stopped buying the express because of its attacks and poor journalists
They appear to have got a little better in today's age of news stories on line and less need to buy papers
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#9
Personally Keith I thought the Dubris column was superb, throwing light on the general uselessness of our councillors who on the whole had very little experience or knowledge to be 'in charge' of what is a multi million pound organisation.
Fortunately nowadays with a greengrocer as Leader of the Council, a mortician in charge of Planning and that bloke who used to run the social club at the docks in charge of Transport I can only see things going from strength to strength.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#10
I'm not really sure where your coming from Bob.
By your posting I presume you feel shouldn't have elections?
And only those that have experience (who would decide that?)
We are lucky we can bother to vote in/out these people
And I wouldn't want to go back to the days where only the elite were able to be on councils
It depends also on what experience is required
Others outside of your ring can also have experience in many different ways
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#11
#9 or go down hill fast, we will all be dead and buried
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#12
Thankfully elections are open to all
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#13
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#14
No Bob
The Dubris article did a lot to stop people buying express
Was an own goal by the papers
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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#15
What nonsense! It might have stopped a few cllrs that it exposed as idiots from buying it, but I'll bet not a single member of the public did so.
Most stopped because of the crap coverage of Dover and featuring closed restaurants in its where to eat guide.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#16
dubris a good sause of info, made me smile.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#17
I think Brian if you were on the receiving end every day of week, with so called reporters folliwing you round every day you may hold a different opinion
I'm aware Reginald of locals who stopped buying express because of Dubris
But I don't deny some also stopped because of the lack of Dover stories
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#18
just pointers keith, just pointers
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#19
Not when you have it every day for 25 years
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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