‘Mainstream’ media is misrepresenting status of EHRC discussions with Labour Party The ‘mainstream’ media are reporting that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is investigating the Labour Party in […]
Theresa May’s dire performance at this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) has drawn plenty of comment – if your best weapon is a smear by Chuka Umunna, it’s clear you’re […]
The Establishment – and possibly jealous – media and supporters of the Labour right are in histrionics at the fact that ‘Iranian BBC’ Press TV was able to film some […]
At the weekend, the Guardian published an article with a misleading headline about a poll supposedly showing that a majority of members of the Unite union back a second referendum […]
The SKWAWKBOX flagged earlier explosive revelations about two very senior Cabinet members we had been told would be named in BBC News’ The Papers review of tomorrow’s newspapers. We did not specify […]
The BBC has, for months, joined in with the united – and completely misleading – media chorus about events at Stafford hospital. Every bulletin on the BBC News channel and […]
As you’re likely to know if you’re visting this blog, I’ve written extensively on ‘Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios‘, or HSMRs, and the many weaknesses and potential for inaccuracy of a […]
Most of the comments I’ve received on this blog about my articles on Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs) has been very positive. Health workers, members of the public and the […]
In the most recent issue of Private Eye magaine, the Medicine Balls columnist shows a graph of figures concerning the use of the Z51.5 palliative care code for deaths at a number […]
My couple of posts on Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs), the clearly and seriously flawed statistics that the government and media are using as a hammer to break the NHS, […]