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Curteis jewellery replatingThe Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009. Read more...


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Watch a real journalist rip a BBC propaganda chief to shreds over Gaza genocide

That is BBC news chief Richard Burgess on the right Peter Oborne shredded him in Parliament, see first video below Source: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-06-20/bbc-editors-trial-israel-genocide/ Veteran journalist Peter Oborne eviscerated the BBC this week over its shameful reporting of Gaza – and unusually, he managed to do so face-to-face with the BBC’s executive news editor, Richard Burgess, during a parliamentary meeting. Oborne’s …

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