It seems, let us say, a little quaint and anachronistic to rule that an MP may not accuse another MP directly of lying: Dawn Butler ejected from Commons for saying Johnson has lied repeatedly. Labour MP accused the prime minister of misleading the Commons and the country over coronavirus.
This dates from the epoch, surely, when 'honourable member' ( Read more... )

UK women are being ‘used as guinea pigs’ by ‘abortion reversal’ doctors: or so they say... “We do help hundreds of women every day in the UK,” said a tired-sounding American woman who spoke to an openDemocracy undercover reporter in the middle of her night. “We’re like the international abortion pill reversal line.”
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[T]he Society for the ( Read more... )

But honestly, I was looking at this, and going 'no jury would convict':

Husband Keeps Hilariously Photobombing Wife’s Zoom Meetings Dressed in Silly Costumes.

'This is my husband in a wacky pool of blood with a kitchen knife stuck in his back'.

'This is my husband a few seconds after drinking the coffee with the cyanide in - LOL!'

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Oft, my dearios, have I complained about people who state that a person or a historical event is unknown or forgotten when the fact of the matter is, the person or event had not previously come to their attention and was known &/or remembered by plenty of other people.
But we have lately had people complaining that historians have been operating ( Read more... )

I have no intention of linking to a particularly egregious example, with nasty personal attacks included, of whingeing about current manifestations in sff and how they are polluting its clean scientific lines with gender and race and diversity generally. However, I will suggest that, hello, these issues have been there for a long time, citing in ( Read more... )

I daresay the sorry tale of the sleazoid Mail on Sunday reporter who ripped off a food bank and then reported on this as Shock! Horror! charities give food to people who represent themselves as being serious need, even when they are lying scumbags journalists in desperate search of a story has already been drawn to everybody's attention.

A question ( Read more... )

Downing Street forces U-turn on Nadine Dorries abortion proposals: No 10 decides to vote against Tory backbench amendment seeking to stop charities offering abortion counselling.

Meanwhile, Abortion law reform plans criticised by women's groups: Charities and health bodies call on equalities minister to intervene and protect rights of women to get ( Read more... )

There's been a lot about the Greg Mortenson debacle all over the reading lists in the last couple of days - interesting round-up of responses here, via
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Harold Shipman was not typical of the NHS. He was a monstrous aberration, not the poster-boy for the British healthcare system. Not that one would realise that from some of the bizarre statements that are being reported.

I'll admit that the NHS is not perfect and that there are lots of things it could do better. But, and this is a very big BUT, it ( Read more... )

Our guilty secrets: the books we only say we've read • 65% in survey admit lying about classic novels • Readers are also impatient and dog-ear the pages

I'm SHOCKED!!!! SHOCKED!!11!!! I tell you, SHOCKED.

OH NOEZ, THEY B STEELIN MA BUKKIT FAITH IN HUMANITY.

If you can't trust readers, who can you trust?

(No, really, not surprised at all. David ( Read more... )