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Media coverage of fascism in Ukraine: Who’s to blame for ‘disinformation’?

For all its dodgy Cold War origins, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty once had a good record of exposing the role…
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Confusion over the Ukrainian far right: Billy Bragg and the Banderite band

There was a time when the mainstream media were prepared to report accurately and in some detail on the disturbing…
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Ukraine and the Bandera cult

After pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was brought down in 2014 by the Maidan protest movement, in which a decisive part…
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On the ‘doxxing’ of J.K. Rowling

Last Friday comedian Holly Stars, actor Georgia Frost and drag king Richard Energy staged a small-scale demonstration outside the Edinburgh…
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New wave of disciplinary action against Labour members: A rightwing campaign to purge the left

A fortnight ago I finally got a letter from the Complaints Team in the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit…
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John Pilger’s fantasy history of Afghanistan

Last week the veteran leftwing journalist John Pilger published an article titled “Afghanistan, The Great Game of Smashing Countries”, which…
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Boris Johnson and his hero from Jaws

One interesting feature of Dominic Cummings’ account of Boris Johnson’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic last year was his revelation…
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Keir and the coronavirus crank: Why Starmer’s leftwing critics were wrong

One of the bizarre features of the much-publicised clash between Keir Starmer and Bath pub landlord Rod Humphris, which took…
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Corbyn and the peace prize: Skwawkbox embarrasses the Left again

Labour MP Chris Williamson made an appearance on the Daily Politics show yesterday to vigorously defend the view that there…
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Dorset Eye and conspiracies — how a leftwing website mistook satire for fact

If you spend much time on social media you can often come away with the impression that the entire left…
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  • Media coverage of fascism in Ukraine: Who’s to blame for ‘disinformation’?
  • Fascists in defence of ‘democratic values’? The whitewashing of the Ukrainian far right continues
  • Confusion over the Ukrainian far right: Billy Bragg and the Banderite band
  • Ukraine and the Bandera cult
  • On the ‘doxxing’ of J.K. Rowling

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