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Tucker Carlson’s Chief Writer Resigns Over Racist and Sexist Comments
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tucker Carlson has long been known for his racist views and attitudes, including calling white supremacy a hoax. You could fill hours and hours of video with his racist monologues. Recently, his opinions have seen big-name advertisers pull their spots from his show. That is newsworthy in and of itself. However, things have taken an […]
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The Myth of Heather MacDonald’s “The Myth of Systematic Police Racism”
Reading Time: 13 minutes Confirmation bias is a pervasive challenge. I am victim to it; you are victim to it. I have been embroiled in many arguments about racial equality in many different places. I was beset on Twitter by a number of people after I took issue with someone who posted this: There is no pattern of racist […]
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Trump Is Ripping up the Constitution and His Supporters Don’t Care
Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s hard not to be obsessed with politic at the moment; it is all-consuming, it is everywhere. I have argued over the Consitution with Trump cultists here many times and they appear to obsess over it. The drool over their own justification of the document. When it is convenient. When it is less convenient, they […]
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Coronavirus Is a “Partisan Pandemic”
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have subjected myself to listening to each and every press briefing from the White House in their entirety over the last few weeks. It is definitely a source of pain. You don’t need me to repeat myself again in exasperation that people could vote for the utter twit that is POTUS. Yes, saying this […]
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“Numbers Are Continuing to Rise!” Leadership Matters. Truth Matters.
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Numbers are continuing to rise…” You might be forgiven for thinking this was an assessment of the death statistics (in the US); after all, this was a comment by the POTUS. But no, it was on Twitter and it was, yet again, a comment from Trump rather narcissistically bigging his own ego up. Just what […]
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Coronavirus Overreaction?
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the UK, we have just had our schools shut down (to be repurposed as “babysitting” facilities for key works, looked-after children and those with EHCPs [Educational Health Care Plans]). In other words, without being too far from a lockdown, things have just got serious. As they have throughout the world. Part of me wonders […]
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The Media and Pandemics
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was having a discussion today about whether coronavirus has caused the media to take up scaremongering. My personal opinion is that the media are not scaremongering, they are just really excited. And excited people tend to over exaggerates and be, well, excitable. This is a journalist’s or a news organisation’s dream come true. This […]
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Fox News Internal Report: Their Own Guests Spread “Disinformation”
Reading Time: 4 minutes This report is delicious for people like myself, who have long maintained that FOX News spread disinformation and lies, that their ideological bias distorts truth beyond the limits of credibility. Well, now FOX have admitted this themselves in an internal report. I wonder what regular commenters here who defend FOX and who watch FOX think […]
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Fact-Checking the Triggered Trumps
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am pretty big on fact-checking, accuracy and making sure that my claims are reasonable. I don’t always get it right, but I like to think that I will change my articles to reflect a more accurate position wherever possible. Before I go on, it is both useful and funny to point out the rather […]