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The Telegraph’s Patrick Hennessy:
Like many other commentators I am intrigued by David Cameron’s decision to invite ITV News cameras into his Notting Hill home to capture intimate scenes of a family breakfast including some tender moments with Ivan, David and Samantha Cameron’s oldest son, who is disabled…
…What fascinates me is how the Camerons’ drive for transparency contrasts with the decision by Gordon and Sarah Brown to pull up the drawbridge as far as their pictures of their children are concerned.
Labour’s “power couple”, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper, adopt a similar policy with regard to their three sprogs - although they are happy to talk about them in interviews…
It’s pretty easy to understand Mr Cameron’s reasoning. One of major media’s essential reporting biases is always to hand a generous pass to liberals and leftists regarding sensitivity, particularly when it comes to families. They are simply assumed to be “family-centered” (just imagine if a certain former NYS governor had been a conservative?), so don’t have to demonstrate their bona fides before cameras.
In contrast, conservatives are automatically tarred by media with the “insensitive” brush. They always have to defend themselves. So about the only way to let voters see that one can be humane and conservative is to try to get ’round that bias through letting cameras peer inside directly.
Ferraro Is Unapologetic for Remarks and Ends Her Role in Clinton Campaign
Let’s all sit back and watch the Democratic party begin to implode. And so many say this current administration has attacked free speech? Yet when a former vice-presidential nominee (who isn’t herself a lunatic) must be “apologetic” for frankly speaking her mind on a potential Democratic presidential nominee, just who, pray tell, is allowed to exactly?
The government has set out how it plans to make the UK the “best place in the world” to run a business…
Is ePolitix having us all on? Is it April Fool’s already?
The BBC reports:
Heathrow Airport’s controversial Terminal 5 is set to be opened by the Queen in a ceremony involving hundreds of airport and construction workers…
…The opening follows a major security alert at the airport on Thursday after a man with a rucksack scaled the perimeter fence and ran into the path of an aircraft.
It may be worth noting that he was nowhere near Terminal 5.
The man was arrested and a controlled explosion carried out on his rucksack. Police said the incident was not terrorism-related…
Not terrorism-related? Huh. So police routinely carry out a controlled explosion on your average criminal’s possessions?
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