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Newspapers were right to publish horrific images of the Woolwich terror attack
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 11:15 AM
Havent the terrorists won, and succeeded in communicating their message, when today every newspaper in the land carries images of the appalling scenes in Woolwich? Alongside the pictures are quoted the rantings of one of the alleged perpetrators. While I understand the concerns being aired, ironically, on social media which is usually the wild [...]Jeremy Hunt is taking on GPs. Remember that the BMA is a trade union like any other
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Mostly, I blame Doctor Findlay, though we journalists havent helped either. Journalistic convention abhors repeated words, so when were writing about, say, GPs, the second reference to GPs generally has to be something other than GPs. The favoured alternative term for general practitioner is family doctor. Is there a nicer, cuddlier phrase than that? Who [...]Over a million people may have accidentally ‘liked’ a covert EDL Facebook page
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 10:16 AM
Since the Woolwich attack, far-Right groups like the English Defence League (EDL) have hugely magnified their presence online, in an effort to harness public anger. This has largely been successful; their Facebook page has received thousands of new likes, and their Twitter account has garnered many new followers. However, it is possible that they are [...]Woolwich attack: confusing, horrific, bizarre – the horror that made literally no sense
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 10:04 AM
We often talk about terrorism, and the violence associated with it, as being mindless or senseless. But we dont actually mean it. What were actually trying to say is its pointless or ineffectual; that its perpetrators wont achieve their objectives, whatever they may be. But for me, yesterdays barbaric act of terror in Woolwich was [...]France says ‘non’ to globalisation
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 09:54 AM
If you want to know whats wrong with the French economy, the findings of this survey say it all. Out of 59 countries surveyed by the Swiss business school, IMD, France has the most negative attitude among business executives both to globalisation and the need for economic and social reform. Basically, the French have got [...]Cub Scout’s honour: Woolwich heroine Ingrid Loyau-Kennett shows that civic values are not dead
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 09:44 AM
I dont know whether Id have had the courage to do what Ingrid Loyau-Kennett did yesterday at the scene of the Woolwich murder. The cub scout leader was on the bus when she saw what she imagined was a car crash victim on the road. She had trained in first-aid and her instant response was [...]Poll: Should Parliament be recalled after the Woolwich terror attack?
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 08:55 AM
Yesterday, MPs began a 13-day Whitsun recess. Should they return to work? This is the official Parliamentary procedure for a recall: Standing order 13 1.) Whenever the House stands adjourned and it is represented to the Speaker by Her Majestys Ministers that the public interest requires that the House should meet at a time earlier [...]Woolwich attack: the savagery of identity politics
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 08:44 AM
One of the most shocking things about the brutal attack in Woolwich yesterday was the arrogance with which one of the bloodied knifemen claimed to be acting on behalf of all Muslims. In what sounded like a South London accent, this British-seeming, casually dressed young man bizarrely spoke as if he were a representative [...]
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