An under-examined industry.
Journalism, someone once said, is about holding a mirror up to your society.
The only proven way of reducing crime is to incarcerate criminals in large numbers
Sex, violence, gore – is there a line, or do our principles require that there be none?
No follow-through.
Equality and Diversity
Sadism, brutality, torture
The public might be forgiven for thinking that the state had bought their silence on a matter of public interest.
When a media organ is suggesting – vaguely – that some people making some arguments might be Russian agents, then that media organ is not doing the public a service.
In a world where keeping the mouth shut as a Christian is an increasing temptation
Also: the usual McGuirk Trump Derangement Syndrome, Paschal and Israel, and the alleged organised torture of a woman in Dublin.
“The big structural issues, like planning backlogs or health capacity crises, or wider EU migration policy, are viewed consistently as being above the political pay grade.”