Do Rod Liddle’s human rights trump yours?
Catherine Bennett defends Rod Liddle. Since when did his freedom of speech trump mine or any of the other 3,900 members of the facebook group?
Media Integrity
Independent owner to be inundated with emails on Liddle
The new owner of the Independent, Alexander Lebedev, is to be inundated with emails from the 3,500 strong facebook group opposing the Independent’s mooted appointment of Rod Liddle as editor. Members of the group were emailed last night by creatortest
Exposed: The Mail’s latest attempt to twist the facts to deny global warming
The Daily Mail have misused an eminent scientist’s work to try and imply he supports their pathetic theory that the cold snap means global warming is a myth.
What the Sun won’t tell you
The Sun today makes uncomfortable reading for Labour supporters. But the underlying data supports the claim that they are using polling to help undermine Brown.
Stop Rod Liddle
A facebook group has been launched to stop Rod Liddle from becoming Editor of the Independent newspaper. Liddle is renowned for a series of offensive outbursts.
Right-wing press parrott Damian Green on asylum inefficiency
The right-wing press have parroted Damian Green’s misleading claims about the asylum seeker system. But the figures reveal that staff are clearing the backlog.
The Express are wrong on housing benefit dependency
The Express reports that housing benefit payments will rise this year. The rise is due to the recession and rents, not a “culture of benefits dependency”.
Exposé of Daniel Hannan’s “Ten reasons to leave the EU”
Tory MEP Daniel Hannan, writing in yesterday’s Telegraph, has laid out what he claims are “Ten reasons to leave the EU”. LFF examines them point-by-point.
Will Iain Dale acknowledge his climate error?
An Iain Dale post seeks to show “no evidence of any warming trend” using data from the Met office. The problem is that the methodology has no statistical basis.
The Daily Pravda spin Moscow’s line
The Daily Express have attacked the Met Office, using flawed Russian State data to accuse them of falsifying evidence on climate change.