Prime Minister David Cameron has decided to put the perceived needs of the United Kingdom at the expense of Europe after using the veto against measures in dealing with the Eurozone debt crisis at Friday’s European Union summit.
The UK will stand alone after leaders of the other twenty-six EU states signed up to the measures. No doubt many of the government’s allies in the newspaper media will hail this standoff as the day the country stood up to the EU, however, it is nothing of the sort.
The media hysteria over the reports on the YouTube videos showing two women shouting racist abuse on public transport has been way over the top.
What the women were doing in ranting about the large influx of foreigners into Britain is just the same as many of the national press have been doing exactly the same thing past and present by publishing such misleading information on the controversial subject in the newspapers.
Does anybody seriously believe that the on-going Leveson inquiry into the national press will help change the way the news is reported in the UK? The cynic in me, and indeed many other people, will say a resounding “no”.
Over the period that the inquiry has sat so far, evidence has been given about press treatment ranged from the so-called great, the saintly good, and the downright infamous. Allegations about the invasion of personal privacy of many people have been well documented.
Private Eye 50th anniversary cover
Private Eye, the satirical magazine that pokes fun at the pompous and the infamous, with some serious investigative journalism inbetween, celebrates being fifty.
Congratulations. Er… and one more thing. Looking on the 50th anniversary cover, it also happens to be issue number 1300. Shouldn’t that also be called,” The 1300th celebratory edition“?
Oh, well. Just a thought….
Just when many people thought that the Coalition government would be less prone to scandals than the previous one, at least two have come along at once in the last few days.
Conservative MP Liam Fox was forced to resign as Defence Secretary over revelations over his working relationship with an advisor, who happened to be a long-time friend.
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