Global Laundromat update: "Bank did bank things with famous person"
Perhaps this is the beginning of a new series for the Guardian? Maybe in the future we can expect stories entitled “Man who voted Brexit regularly beats wife” and...
"Global Laundromat" has the Guardian in a Spin
by Kit The latest “breaking” story from the Guardian and Luke Harding is hitting the headlines. Almost exactly 1 year after the explosive anti-climax that was “The Panama Papers”,...
Crimea and Ukraine: Luke Harding goes off his meds
by Kit Modern mass-media is replete with instances of cognitive dissonance. However none can so perfectly encapsulate the madness of the pretend world so many “journalists” now live in...
"MH17 two years on": Luke Harding's cynical exploitation of one family's pain
Something of a tour de force of moral bankruptcy even for the team that brought you the Polonium story. We don't just get racism, warmongering and towering falsehoods here....
Deconstructing Russophobia
Imagine that Vladimir Putin were not a murderous autocrat and kleptocrat who has spent his fourteen years in power living up to his KGB past and dragging Russia ever...
Panama Papers: Revealing details live in the gaps between the lines
Certain species of lizard - when threatened, cornered or in danger of being eaten - have the ability to "drop" their tail. This process, "Autotomy" (from the Greek, auto=self,...
Panama Papers cause Guardian to collapse into self-parody
You'd be forgiven for thinking, given the above picture, that the Panama Papers had something to do with Vladimir Putin. Maybe he was a kingpin of the whole thing....
Luke Harding’s: A Very Heavily Discounted Book
by TUTISICECREAM The unexceptional account of a discredited inquiry The Guardian’s Book of the Day [here today gone tomorrow?] masquerading as a “True Crime” story, is an attempt to...
Ruffled Petals at the Guardian
by Bryan Hemming In another principled stand against information it doesn’t like very much the Guardian has made it quite clear that anyone linking to the renegade Off-Guardian site...
Now we are One…
One year ago today five (as we then were) longtime Guardian readers who were being repeatedly censored in and banished from the ironically titled "Comment is Free" sections, got...
Guardian makes “error” reading MH17 report, accuses rebels of cover up – UPDATED
In an article compiled by Luke Harding, Shaun Walker and Julian Borger, entitled “MH17 report suggests efforts were made to cover up causes of disaster”, and published October 13,...
Luke Harding : the hack who came in from the cold
Catte Black Luke Daniel Harding (born 1968) studied English at University College, Oxford. While there he edited the student newspaper Cherwell. He worked for The Sunday Correspondent, the Evening...
Assange in ‘Newsweek’: How ‘The Guardian’ Milked Edward Snowden’s Story
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man (Guardian/Faber & Faber, 2014) by Luke Harding is a hack job in the purest sense of the term. Pieced together...
