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A sad day for palliative care
Thee weeks ago I wrote about my dismay at the Daily Mail’s attack on the Liverpool Care Pathway. This week Baroness Neuberger’s team has published its report: “More Care, Less Pathway.” Amongst its...
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Liverpool Care Pathway – The Daily Mail vs Care for the Dying
An inevitable philosophical question: I’ve been occasionally contributing to Angrymob for a few years now. Kevin (aka Uponnothing) very kindly gave me a login. I write because I care about the truth. I...
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Something Positive About The Daily Mail
Now, bear with me! On Facebook there is an identity referred to as “The Medical Registrar” this is a small number of doctors who post pithy and interesting comments about medicine. Sharp humour is the...
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Here lies Winterval: 1998-2011?
So, after a lot of resistance – distorted, truth-bending resistance – the Daily Mail have published a correction after Melanie Phillips claimed that: Christmas has been renamed in various places...
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Melanie Phillips and libel
Melanie Phillips’ second email to me is really quite interesting for such a short piece of writing. She claims that my blog post is: highly defamatory and contains false allegations for which you would...
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Publishing emails…
I have had some criticism on Twitter and in the comments on site – not to mention from Melanie Phillips herself – for publishing contents of the emails that she sent to me. I can understand the...
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Melanie Phillips on Winterval
About half an hour ago I sent Melanie Phillips an email regarding her repetition of the famous ‘Winterval’ myth on which I happen to think myself quite the expert – having traced the myth back to its...
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Melanie Phillips’ dishonest attack on Rory Weal
One of the main criticisms of the welfare state I seem to hear about is that it rewards the idle, whilst punishing the hard-working who ultimately have to fund the system through direct and indeed...
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Melanie Phillips & Nadine Dorries
The trouble with the abortion debate, claims Melanie Phillips, is that it is being shut down by the ‘Guardian/BBC agenda’ which: demonstrates once again the power of the campaigns of instantaneous...
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Melanie Phillips: in her own little world
Melanie Phillips. Mad Mel. Someone who I recall was once memorably described on Twitter as ‘batshit, faeces up the wall insane’. It says something that even in the reality vacuum, outrage baiting world...
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Some new media myths
As you can probably guess I spent a lot of time researching and writing my Winterval essay. Throughout the process I often just sat there, annoyed and depressed with each utterly ignorant repetition of...
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The Madness of Melanie Phillips
So, Dr Andrew Wakefield is now just plain old Andrew Wakefield after being struck off for – in the words of the Telegraph’s Tom Chivers: [being] one of the principal authors of perhaps the stupidest...
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