In Quotes

George Monbiot, The Guardian, 30 September, 2008:
"The sums demanded may be unprecedented, but there is nothing new about the principle: corporate welfare is a consistent feature of advanced capitalism. Only one thing has changed: Congress has been forced to confront its contradictions."

Mark Steel, The Independent, 17 September 2008:
"Then they [bankers] should all be sent down the job centre. At first they'll complain 'There's nothing for me in there. I trained for two whole hours to get my qualifications as a parasite and there's no parasite jobs going at the moment anywhere.'"

Jonathan Cook, response to Media Lens's alert Intellectual Cleansing, sent on 5 October, 2008:
"The media’€™s lengthy filtering system means that it is many years before the great majority of journalists get the chance to write with any degree of freedom for a national newspaper, and they must first have proved their “€œgood judgment”€� many times over to a variety of senior editors. Most have been let go long before they would ever be in a position to influence the paper’€™s coverage."

Jay Rayner, The Observer, 5 October, 2008, referring to Dr Michael Antoniou, head of the Nuclear Biology Group at Guy's Hospital:
"The answer, surely, is that the regulatory regime is there to catch these things. No, Antoniou says, because it is not based on detailed genetic studies or even animal feeding tests. It is based on the doctrine of 'substantial equivalence', in which the original plant and its GM version are compared and, if found to be similar, passed as suitable for cultivation. It is, he argues, like comparing a conventional and nuclear weapon of the same yield and deciding they are substantially equivalent because of their explosive power."