by barry | Dec 28, 2022 | Campaigns, Climate Change
If you watched ‘The Oil Machine’ on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001gf42/the-oil-machine you may recall a statement by a spokesperson from BP who stressed the importance of being part of the transition to a lower carbon economy. He went on to...
by barry | Dec 1, 2022 | Europe, media freedom
In a recent YouTube broadcast about the War in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9pEotvlW-s the veteran investigative journalist John Pilger warns us that: ‘This is a war of propaganda’ and that we must be sceptical about everything. That’s sound advice when...
by barry | Nov 30, 2022 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, whistle blowing
The editors and publishers of the five media organisations who partnered with WikiLeaks – The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Der Spiegel and New York Times – have called for end to the prosecution of Julian Assange. The New York Times reports...
by barry | Nov 27, 2022 | Campaigns, Climate Change, international, Press
The sand has settled following COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – a country whose prisons are heaving with political prisoners including Egyptian-British pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Now it’s time to evaluate just how the press covered this most...
by barry | Nov 10, 2022 | Campaigns, censorship, freedom of information, Government, media freedom
In June I blogged that the government had introduced its much heralded National Security Bill into Parliament: https://thespark.me.uk/2022/06/15/governments-new-security-bill-threatens-whistle-blowers-and-journalists-and-our-right-to-know/. In the government’s view...
