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Listed below are comments made by old_one_eye between Friday, 17th October 2008 and Wednesday, 10th December 2008.

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Jowell's comments come as no surprise 3:02pm on 10 Dec 2008 No the sloppy journalism isn't in the use of anonymous 'sources'. You're right - no journalist can reveal all his sources.

The sloppy journalism is in leaping to spurious conclusions and then publishing them as fact to sensationalise a story and mislead your readership.

The problem with blogs is taht your readership can feedback - if you don't like that - blogging isn't for you!
Jowell's comments come as no surprise 12:38pm on 14 Nov 2008 This is a nonsense!

To paraphrase what I understand Ms Jowell has said: 'If we had known then what we know now we would have done things different - but I think that would have been a mistake because we can now see what the advantages really are.

How is this a gaff?

Personally I have little time Ms Jowell but one might think that you and your colleague from the [notoriously impartial] Daily Telegraph might have better things to do than whip this stuff up. There are plenty of difficult questions to be asked of Ms Jowell and the government on 2012; plenty of issues to be probed. Instead you've managed to get yourself tangled in a row about semantics whilst ignoring the clear intention of her remarks.

Stupid!
Use this 2012 enthusiasm 4:32pm on 17 Oct 2008 You say they were watching the parade on TV.

I was in Sydney for their parade (held two weeks after the end of the games rather than two months...) and the city was awash with school kids who'd been taken out for the day by their schools to see their Olympians parade in the flesh.

And you wonder if we can use this to inspire? Unlikely in the atmosphere of narrow mindedness that informs our approach to such matters!

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