Category: Opinion

Public perceptions in developed countries of migrants taking jobs, lowering wages and being a burden on social services are untrue… According to reports such as the International Organization for Migration’s World Migration Report 2005, competition for low skill jobs is largely between migrant communities themselves; migrants have negligible if any impact on lowering wages while […]

Was the legendary writer and a thorn in the side of the US government pushed by government agents, or did he jump when he felt his time was up?   The beauty of the American system of government is that, unlike a monarchy or dictatorship, one administration or president cannot be held accountable for the failings of […]

If any single topic best demonstrates the irrelevance of televised political punditry, it is the artificial buzz about a 2008 presidential race between Hilary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice…   Deeper issues are often submerged in the media, but the after-dinner politics surrounding the 08 elections have regularly been mooted in public time. So it might […]

If any single topic best demonstrates the irrelevance of televised political punditry, it is the artificial buzz about a 2008 presidential race between Hilary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice…   Deeper issues are often submerged in the media, but the after-dinner politics surrounding the 08 elections have regularly been mooted in public time. So it might […]

Public Relations guru Max Clifford tells greatreporter.com how he became as knowledgeable as he is notorious in the British press… Max Clifford – the UK’s best known publicist and a consummate media manipulator – says the media was a totally different world when he started out.

Is J K Rowling’s Rita Skeeter the new face of the fictional journalist? One reporter looks at the less than magical portrayal by authors of hacks on the job… Quidditch brooms at the ready: this Autumn heralds the latest film adaptation in the Harry Potter franchise. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire presents a […]

Newspapers are flooded with maps of bird migration routes, explanations and analysis, but reports on bird flu vary so much that no-one is sure of the real threat… The viral spread of avian or bird flu occurs when the combination of the normal flu and the avian virus exists at the same time. The greatest […]

Despite efforts over the last four years the US, the UN and the world still face the never-ending search for those responsible for terrorism and its financiers…     At the 1999 United Nations International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorists it was decided then that each country should take immediate steps […]