The Big Issue

Let’s sniff out the real news

For most of the past 18 months I have taken a daily newspaper, or two. I think it’s made me an enemy of the news-making process. A deluge of speculation wrapped up in some important events and developments.

How do you learn to separate the dross from the true stuff you need to know? Or is it an impossibility?

What newspapers seem to suggest is that something is always going wrong. And they may be right. Hews, like deodorant, is a commodity: in the course of the day you sweat and so you

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