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Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett

Opinion: Don’t believe everything you read in the papers…

By Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett | Thu 8th December 2011 - 2:34 pm

I’ve learnt again this week that it’s not a good idea to believe everything you read in the papers. In this case, it was a story in the Sunday Telegraph suggesting that the Government were changing the wording of “Academy Funding Agreements” on the teaching of marriage. Thankfully, it turned out to be a non-story.

Academy Funding Agreements are the governing documents for academies and Free Schools and are agreed between the Secretary of State and the governing body of the Academy, and the story suggested there were “strict new rules” about marriage.

However, a bit of digging …

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Stephen Tall

New Torygraph smears against Nick, as Hennessy hits a hat-trick

By Stephen Tall | Sun 30th January 2011 - 3:35 pm

‘Nick Clegg – no more Government business please after 3pm’ squeals the Torygraph today, delighted that they have managed to link their three favourite things in one story: (1) Having a pop at Nick Clegg (check); (2) Having a pop at the Coalition (check); and (3) Having a pop at ‘political correctness gawn mad’ (check).

If you read the story by the paper’s reliably on-right-wing-message Patrick Hennessy — and it’s almost worth it to see a political editor in full reactionary cry — a few facts become clear. First, that the 3pm deadline refers to the Whitehall practice of ‘closing’ …

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Stephen Tall

Telegraph’s dodgy “‘invisible’ Lib Dem ministers” survey: nothing to see here, folks

By Stephen Tall | Sun 8th August 2010 - 12:15 pm

Ah, opinion polls. Love ’em or hate ’em, you just can’t ignore ’em.

Today’s Telegraph reports a typically anti-Lib Dem story, Voters fail to recognise ‘invisible’ Lib Dem ministers. It claims to show that “Liberal Democrat cabinet ministers are far less likely to be recognised by ordinary voters than their Conservative counterparts”. However, the real clue to its accuracy is in the next few words, “a survey by The Sunday Telegraph has revealed”.

So how did the Telegraph commission its survey, you might ask. Did they pay a beyond-reproach polling firm (or even YouGov) to talk to a representative sample …

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