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The cult of the crusading journo

Beware the sons of vicars, and who's afraid of Scientology? Read Mick Hume's columns in The Times (this week).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
Columnist

Topics Politics

Friday 18 May 2007:

‘None of my best friends are Scientologists, and I have no time for their creepy religion. But this week’s furore over the Panorama exposé of Scientology and the hysterical BBC reporter highlighted something that should be of more concern: the rise of the cult of the self-righteous “crusading” journalist….’

Read on….

Tuesday 15 May 2007:

‘Beware the pious sons of preachermen! Such as Gordon Brown, who boasts that his father was a Presbyterian minister who gave Brown junior the “moral compass” for his miserabilism….’

Read on.…

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