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The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-02-21
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

SEX, DRUGS, HEARTBREAK AND SCANDAL - THE INNER WORKINGS OF A TABLOID NEWSROOM Fleet Street Fox's anonymity allows her to delve deep into the dark corners of that most guilty of pleasures - the tabloid exposé. Acerbic, funny, and revelatory, her diaries show the heart within the hack as she tries to recover from a betrayal as devastating as any newspaper scandal. Now an internet smash, with over forty thousand followers on twitter, two hugely popular blogs and a reputation throughout the media industry, Foxy's diaries are juicy, shocking and as near to the knuckle as the lawyers would allow. The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox tells the truth about her trade: the private scandals, victories and disasters that don't end up on the front page. This is the hardest story she has ever told.

Bluffer's Guide to Journalism
  • Language: en

Bluffer's Guide to Journalism

It isn’t that journalism is particularly difficult – one look at Piers Morgan will prove that any fool can do it – but it nonetheless requires a level of braggadocio and bluster that would make even Donald Trump blush. It is possible to bluff one’s way through discussions on wine, or Brexit, or even the offside rule, with a little knowledge and a bit of brass neck. But anyone who attempts to pull the wool over the eyes of a journalist will be attempting The Greatest Bluff Known To Humankind, because journalists can smell a lie from 500 miles away down a patchy telephone line, while drunk and at closing time. To pull it off, you will need the native cunning of Machiavelli, the coolness of Dean Martin and the same total lack of scruples as Del Boy Trotter. You will also need this book. DO SAY "A journalist is a reporter out of a job" – Mark Twain DON’T SAY "Trust me. Have you ever known a journalist not honour an 'off-the-record' agreement, invade someone’s privacy, not protect a source, make up a quote ... ?"

Exposed: The Secret History of Britain's Nuclear Experiments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Exposed: The Secret History of Britain's Nuclear Experiments

Uncovers the untold story of Britain’s atomic bomb program, revealing the devastating human cost and decades-long cover-up. Once upon a time, it was necessary to have a weapon that could unleash hell. Britain hand-picked its healthiest and cleverest men to undertake a truly terrifying mission: to create and detonate an atomic bomb. Somehow, a country beset by post-war rationing and isolated from her allies created the most devastating weapons known to man, on the cheap and at the hurry-up. But it came at a horrifying price for them - and their families. The race to build a nuclear bomb sucked thousands into its vortex, who are still dealing with the effects of radiation today: veterans, wi...

Bluffer's Guide To Social Media
  • Language: en

Bluffer's Guide To Social Media

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of social media. Know what to say, what not to say, what to post, what not to post, and what excuses to make if you don’t know the difference between a tweet and a dweet, or even a retweet (which, any tweeple worth their salt will know is always called an RT). Never again confuse a LOL with an ROFL, a selfie with a shelfie, or Godwin’s Law with the Streisand Effect. Bask in the admiration of your fellow social media aficionados as you pronounce confidently on the chances of Facebook going the way of Friends Reunited and Bebo, and why MySpace could be the Casio keyboard of the 21st century. Above all don’t hold back when it comes to saying what you really think of trolls, pointing out that there has never yet been one who had a healthy mental attitude, a steady job and the requisite intelligence to write anything worth reading.

My Name's Not Susie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

My Name's Not Susie

This book poignantly traces the personal, ethical, and professional development of a child predicted to be dysfunctional.

Losing Our Dignity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Losing Our Dignity

There is perhaps no more important value than fundamental human equality. And yet, despite large percentages of people affirming the value, the resources available to explain and defend the basis for such equality are few and far between. In his newest book Charles Camosy provides a thoughtful defense of human dignity. Telling personal stories like those of Jahi McMath, Terri Schiavo, and Alfie Evans, Camosy, a noted bioethicist and theologian, uses an engaging style to show how the influence of secularized medicine is undermining fundamental human equality in the broader culture. And in a disturbing final chapter, Camosy sounds the alarm about the next population to fall if we stay on our current trajectory: dozens of millions of human beings with dementia. Heeding this alarm, Camosy argues, means doing two things. First, making urgent and genuine attempts to dialogue with a secularized culture which cannot see how it is undermining one of its most foundational values. Second, religious communities which hold the Imago Dei sacred must mobilize their existing institutions (and create new ones) to care for a new set of human beings our throwaway culture may deem non-persons.

Grappling with the Bomb
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Grappling with the Bomb

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-26
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  • Publisher: ANU Press

Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957–58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island—today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program—many are still living with the health and environmental consequences. Based on archival research and interviews with nuclear survivors, Grappling with the Bomb presents i-Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britain’s nuclear folly.

The Candidate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 582

The Candidate

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-30
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  • Publisher: OR Books

Drawing on first-hand interviews with those involved in the campaign, including its most senior figures, Nunns traces the origins of Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable ascent in British politics.

Shattered Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Shattered Nation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-09-10
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided? Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In A Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further apart. Visiting sites across the British Isles and exploring the social fissures that have emerged, Danny Dorling exposes a new geography of inequality. Middle England has been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis, and even people doing comparatively well are struggling to stay afloat. Once affluent suburbs are now unproductive places where opportunity has been replaced by food banks. Before COVID, life expectancy had dropped as a result of p...

The Cankerworm
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 56

The Cankerworm

Competing in a 100 metres long race thrilled me during my school days. I did not always fi nish fi rst in the race, but the interesting point to me was that, I always crossed the fi nishing line no matter what. I used to observe some disappointment on my fellow competitors whenever they fi nished the race behind others. They complained about the weather or just blamed themselves as being useless runners. What they did not realise was that, we were all winners because we all ran and crossed the fi nishing line. This mentality helped me to believe that limitations did not come from anyone but myself. No one was ever forced by anyone to pull out of the race, that decision came from an individual. Failure in anything is a matter of choice. In my book The Cankerworm, I have identifi ed the root causes of debt, distress and discontentment that lie within and how they can be overcome. Doing nothing is not an option. All issues in this book are real and nothing is factious. God Bless Daniel Dube