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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
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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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