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13 November 2025

Paul English Live #113 · Mass Media Mendacity - E114

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Thursday November 13th· 8pm UK · 3pm US eastern

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On this week’s show I open with George Orwell (Eric Blair) as our touchstone and dive into mainstream media mendacity, with the BBC’s latest editing scandal as a case in point. We range across how propaganda works, the soft power of “nudges” in drama and entertainment, and the long arc from Bernays to today’s newsrooms. Eric Von Essex joins to swap war stories on the Corporation, Room 101, and the culture industry, and we reflect on how institutions get captured and why honest speech is so rare inside parties, newsrooms, and quangos.

We contrast the media machine with listeners’ lived reality: immigration, the erosion of trust, and the way labels like “racist” are weaponised to shut down debate. There’s a nod to Van Morrison’s protest songs, a brief dip into Enoch Powell’s warnings about political cowardice, and a look at the Mike Graham/Talk fallout as another sign of the times. We finish with a heads‑up for Nathan Lucius, Mark Devlin and Steve James’s December gathering on the esoteric roots of Christmas—Saturnalia, Sirius, mushrooms, Krampus and all—plus some cheer, gallows humour, and a reminder to keep calm, keep talking, and keep laughing at the would‑be censors.


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