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View ArticleThe Feral Beast: Mad Mel conjures up Druid rage
Melanie Phillips is always game for a little controversy but did she know what she was getting into when she took on the Druids?.
View ArticleThe Spectator apologies for falsely accusing Muslim of antisemitism
Apology follows settlement in which magazine and contributor Melanie Phillips agreed to pay Mohammad Sawalha compensation and his legal costs.
View ArticleMedia Proprietor of the Year Award 2010
The award has gone to figures as varied as Rupert Murdoch and David Montgomery. But this year's winner is perhaps the most colourful of all. . .
View ArticleOn freedom of speech
One of the great things about freedom of speech is that by extending it to everyone we can identify the lunatics as soon as they open their mouths. And one of the best things about the internet is that...
View ArticleMinisters face calls for apology as extent of 1970s 'virginity tests' revealed
Practice used to 'check marital status' of Asian migrants more widely administered than first thought, Home Office files show.
View ArticleTV ratings - 19 May: Ken Clarke detains 3 million on Question Time
A Question Time special featuring the embattled justice secretary, Ken Clarke, and filmed at Wormwood Scrubs prison proved a minor breakout hit for BBC1 with 3 million viewers.
View ArticleWhy Melanie Phillips quit The Spectator
Melanie Phillips claims that she resigned from The Spectator because it published an apology for one of her blog items.
View ArticleThe falls of the houses of Phillips and Hari
I suspect many of us labouring in the lessglamoroustrenches of journalism will be feeling a little schadenfreude at the moment. First came the sudden departure of.
View ArticleMurdoch's Wapping crisis: what the papers say
Front page headline-of-the-day award goes to The Scotsman: 'Rebekah Brooks is my No1 priority,' says defiant Murdoch. Runner-up, on the Daily Mail's website next to the picture of a beaming Rupert...
View ArticlePatrick Hayes: IstyOsty: The Website That Allows the Twitterati to Have a...
Up until recently, the liberal Twitterati have been faced with a dilemma. By tweeting links of Daily Mail and Sun articles to their followers in order to engage in a collective two minute hate against...
View ArticleDaily Mail columnist hits back over quotes in Norway gunman’s manifesto
Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips has spoken out after being cited in a manifesto believed to have been written by Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik and sent out shortly before Friday’s attacks.
View ArticleDaily Mail writer Melanie Phillips hits back at ‘crude smears’ after she is...
Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips has responded to online commentary noting that her work was referenced by Norway’s mass killer. The Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik published a 1,500...
View ArticleUK riots: wild nights on the screen, calmer days in the papers
Every part of the media spectrum – from the immediacy of TV and live blogs to the cooler analysis of print – was needed to paint a full picture of the rioting.
View ArticleSimon Heffer launches Mail Online comment website RightMinds
RightMinds unveiled with intention of creating web community for Mail Online, with writers including Richard Littlejohn.
View ArticleJournalisted Weekly: Lib Dem Conference, Swansea mine tragedy and UBS ‘rogue...
Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is run by the Media Standards Trust,...
View ArticleSimon Heffer on the Mail's RightMinds and why he doesn't vote Conservative
He says the rightwing opinion site he edits is the Mail's answer to Guardian's Comment is Free.
View ArticleWhy it's wrong for journalists to be always right
Guardian columnist George Monbiot (pictured) in the latest issue of The Word magazine argues that journalists should accept that they're always going to be wrong about something.
View ArticleMail may have perpetuated Winterval myth – but it deserves credit for killing...
In addition to today’s “Winterval” correction - the Daily Mail has deleted references to Winterval from the article which prompted the reader complaints. The 25 September Melanie Phillips article now...
View ArticleMedia Quotes of the Week: From timid editors to is it time for a Self-Hating...
Chris Morley, the NUJ’s Northern and Midlands organiser, in a blog for Ethos PR: “Local newspapers are not dead but they are being killed by remote and irresponsible owners who care nothing for them...
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