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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Of speech and space and shouting and platforms
I was truly disturbed this weekend: not so much by the letter about “free speech” as by the response to it and then, in turn, the inevitable response to the response. It set off a train of thoughts and fears, … Continue reading
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Tagged bindel, freedom of speech, julie bindel, kate, mary beard, moore, no platform, no platforming, peter tatchell, read, rupert, smurthwaite, space, speech, suzanne, tatchell beard
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Meet the Greys
I have been writing about 50 Shades – along with almost every other journalist in the UK. It wasn’t altogether easy. No: not because the film was awful (i wouldn’t quite go that far); but because press passes were in … Continue reading
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Tagged 50sog, Anastasia Steele, Christian Grey, cineworld, eyeforfilm, fifty shades, fifty shades of grey, film, review, stevenage
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The depths of financial depravity
Were you cross at today’s news that HSBC, the UK’s largest banking group had, for years, assisted UK taxpayers in moving large sums of money offshore into secret Swiss bank accounts? Or spittingly angry that our tax inspectorate, the HMRC, … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits, fraud, hmrc, hsbc, hypocrisy, switzerland, tax, tax avoidance, tax dodging
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