Why Melanie Phillips is Nutts on drugs
A point-by-point fisking of Daily Mail extremist Melanie Phillips’s analysis of the Professor Nutt sacking.
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Mail immigration deception
Statistics in today’s Daily Mail on immigration are deceiving and misleading. They fail to show that net migration has fallen to its lowest level in nearly six years.
Revenue neutral green taxes have public support
Green groups have reacted positively to a new report by the Green Fiscal Commission amid right-wing media scare stories about the impact of the plans. The right-wing press have jumped on a single proposal in the report which would introducetest
“£6 million” campaign only cost £364,000
The Daily Mail’s implication that a government advert cost £6 million could not be further from the truth. We are not surprised.
You wouldn’t know it from the tabloids, but immigration is starting to fall
If you want to scare the hell out of people on immigration, big numbers will usually do the trick. So here’s a few to get you going. There are 6.6 million foreign-born people in the UK, up by 2.3 milliontest
The hateful Jan Moir: wrong on every level
More hate-filled vitriol from the Daily Mail.
Mail untruths Pt 3: work-life balance row
An article in today’s Daily Mail willfully misconstrues the findings of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report. While the article says the research goes against Government work-life balance policy, the report itself says the opposite.
Mail’s quango deception
The Daily Mail this morning falsely and maliciously lied about the cost of quangos.
Daily Mail crowd estimate out by 2,000 per cent
The Daily Mail headline screamed, “A million march to US Capitol to protest against ‘Obama the socialist’.” But American bloggers at Left Foot Forward’s sister site, Think Progress, have revealed that the organisers inflated the attendance by over 2,000 percent.test
Tabloid hysteria over Equalities Bill wide of the mark
The Equalities Bill, will, for the first time, outlaw discrimination on the grounds of socio-economic background.