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Category Archives: Journalism
I used #BBCAskThis…
… to bring up issues I think have been as yet overlooked in the campaign leading up to the UK general elections. I have no idea whether the questions will be considered – I made them out in writing and … Continue reading
Profiling Guccifer
Some more material and a few shreds of thought on the story and the hacker himself… The other day Pando.com of San Francisco published my big feature on the Romanian hacker Guccifer, real name Marcel Lazar-Lehel. He is a fascinating … Continue reading
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Tagged guccifer, guccifer archive, hillary clinton, marcel lazar lehel, micul fum, pando, romanian hacker
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No Land’s Man or How Not to Do an Election
The 2014 presidential elections were a pyrrhic victory for Western values in post-Communist Romania. Note: a Romanian language version of this article was published by Gazeta de Romania, a London-based newspaper for Romanian expats. Read it here. Thousands of Romanians … Continue reading
The Medianett saga: adventures in mercenary churnalism
“Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme…” – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667 Cub reporters: beware of marketing agencies employing investigative journalists. These wrongens* will likely try to corrupt you. Initially I wanted to be the source instead of the … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Prose
Tagged alternative finance, bridging and commercial, bridging loans, british finance, caron schreuder, chanice henry, fca, financial conduct authority, journalism 101, libel, loans industry, lynda blackwell, media corruption, medianett, medianett limited, medianett ltd, mo mulki, sainsbury's knickers, secured loans, secured loans industry, short term loans, wrongens
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Nursing a crisis
In light of news earlier this month that the NHS is seriously overspending on agency staff, Rotherham Hospital provides a glimpse into how the dogma of outsourcing often achieves the exact opposite of its intended purpose which is to save … Continue reading
The orphans of Romania who are building new lives underground
A story I wrote and that ran in Huck Magazine, a subculture bi-monthly. I knew about the children of the tunnels, but was just one of the passers-by. Huck readers and I now look at them through the eyes of … Continue reading
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Tagged cinci lei, gara de nord, joost vandebrug, romania, romania's orphans, the lost boys
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From The Guardian: Ikea funds went to Romanian secret police in communist era
Secret police files reveal six-figure payments to Ceausescu’s henchmen, as retailer denies knowingly paying Securitate. by the Deviant’s Matei Rosca in Bucharest
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Tagged cnsas, communist romania, ikea, secret operation, securitate
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GUSH Cosmetics Au Naturel
From between the Deviant’s sofa cushions! Eco-friendlier-than-thou multinational cosmetics corporation’s North America boss had ties with tar sands oil extraction and strip-mining industries. Soap tycoon Mark ‘Castevet’ Constantine of LUSH Cosmetics talks to the Deviant on the phone – shocking … Continue reading