Three weeks on from the original Swinsongate and Young Labour are still claiming the veracity of the story on the front page of their national website. Of course, this puts Omar Salem in the uncomfortable position of having one version of the press release on the national website and another, contradictory, version on the London… Continue reading Swinsongate Goes National…
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Policy by smoke signal
The confusion over whether the government is or isn’t going to support moves to scrap the blasphemy libel laws has reminded me of the ongoing debate over the government’s plans to make it illegal to incite hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation. In a bad case of wanting to have it both ways, Peter… Continue reading Policy by smoke signal
Those BBC values in full: paedo = gay
Another in my occasional series about the BBC (which may well have been corrected by the time you read this): Now, innocent until you’re proven guilty on all that: I’m not commenting on the case itself. But since when does accusing someone of paedophilia count as a “gay slur”? If a straight man was accused… Continue reading Those BBC values in full: paedo = gay