As spin seems to be the main topic of the day, let’s repair to the London Evening Standard where an ‘old friend’ of the Ministry has seemingly resurfaced:
Fury as BBC gives money to disgraced Holocaust denier who ‘pestered bereaved families after the 7/7 bombing’
The BBC paid expenses to a disgraced academic who has pestered families [...]

Right, well that’s me sufficiently wired on nicotine and caffeine to start to trying to make a bit of sense of last night’s proceedings, and the first place to start is with the BBC’s election coverage.
Fuck me, it was shite.
Actually it was more than shite, it was mind-numbingly, brain-cell crushingly shite. You might well think [...]

In a move guaranteed to get right up the noses of the seething classes it appears that the BBC’s Newsnight programme may well have caught the Cameroonies favourite think-tank up to their elbows in fabricating evidence used in a flagship report on the alleged sale of extremist ‘Islamic’ literature by British mosques.
A rightwing thinktank which [...]