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Journalist, Private Eye magazine. Also words in Guardian, Independent, Tribune, Morning Star & more. Shortlisted 2022 Paul Foot Prize. Own views here.
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Mar 28 4 tweets 1 min read
(1) In 2004 "Jamies School Dinners" showed school dinners were terrible, turkey-twizzlers that made kids unhealthy and undermined education. The problem was cost cutting privatised catering. The answer was on-site publicly run kitchens engaging kids with food....... (2)...It was a big scandal that blindsided and embarrassed the New Labour Govt (even though Unison had produced loads of reports telling Labour MP's the same thing just before 1997) Everyone ran around issuing new standards, promising change, loads of press, but.......
Sep 29, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
(1)Amazon's documentary "The Fake Sheikh" on Tabloid Undercover Reporter Mazher Mahmood is well worth watching IMO. It shows a sickness at the heart of UK media, all its great investigative power (mis)used against...Page 3 Models, catwalk models and a pop star... (2)You have to fill in one blank yourself- the Tabloid hacks keep saying 'he was ready to expose the powerful' , when he only aims at 'The Well Known', and as these Celebs have done little wrong, resorts to entrapment + lies - it's the UK media ferociously savaging the innocent