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fairly accurately represent the UK’s society.
What a shame he didn’t do his homework before rushing into print and writing such an inaccurate, divisive and misleading piece. Donald Crighton Bournemouth and Dorset branch
Time to step up the fight for a lower pension age “Future pensioners must pay more, work longer, and receive less, whilst the Government expects to save £500 million over the next 35 years as the result of raising the state pension age.” This alarming forecast is from a pamphlet by the National Pensioners’ Convention. And it is a far cry from the vision of our trade union ancestors. Among their main demands was that after 50 years of earning a living people would be able to see out the rest of their lives on a pension big enough for a comfortable old age. This we were told would be more the
case as the introduction of technology took over the boring, repetitive and uneconomic labour that had gone before. The need for less labour meant more retirement time. Pension experts also forecast that the
auto-enrolment schemes are a disaster waiting to happen. The pamphlet explains all of this and
is essential reading for the fight back to regain some of the ground won in over 100 years of struggle and to campaign
STEVE BELL
to lower the pension age in Britain. For what it’s worth…Understanding the new state pension. National Pensioners Convention, 10 Melton Street, London NW1 2EJ
www.npcuk.org
Roy Jones Chair NUJ 60+ council
Captions can be a lesson in the blindingly obvious Further to Mike Pentelow’s letter on picture captions, they are often guilty of telling readers the obvious instead of giving further information. A photograph illustrating an overseas election, let’s say, may show a woman pushing a pram past a hoarding covered with candidates’ posters. The caption tell us: “A woman pushes a pram past a hoarding covered with election posters in the So-and-So capital”, whereas it might say, “Polls indicate that women’s votes will be a deciding factor in the So-and-So election”. A prize example of stating the
obvious was on one of the business pages of The Times (my old newspaper), when a caption identified two men beaming at the camera as a company executive and – helpfully adding “right” – a bishop. Readers could have probably guessed that the one wearing a clerical collar, purple shirt and large silver cross was the ecclesiastic. Stafford Mortimer Life member Gloucestershire
twitter feed Tweet us your feedback: @mschrisbuckley Luke Traynor (@LTraynorMirror) Allan Young (@allanyoung100) 04/07/2015 20:45
@NUJofficial Good magazine this week, folks. The piece on tabloid benefits ‘crime’ a worthy read. #journalism
17/07/2015 09:39
Good blog from @churchpoverty on recent @NUJofficial guidelines for journalists writing about poverty
blog.church-poverty.org. uk/2015/07/10/a-c…
James Rodgers (@jmacrodgers) 14/07/2015 11:27
In week when @TheEconomist reminded us dole only 2% of welfare, current @NUJofficial magazine good on how #journalism should cover poverty
@ikeaddy 9:21 PM - 9 Jul 2015
What N Korea and aspirational reformers have in common. Great from Chris Proctor in The Journalist. Thanks to @NUJofficial @ mschrisbuckley
@paulageraghty 2:33 PM - 20 Jul 2015
@mschrisbuckley @FionaOCleirigh @kunaldutta really enjoying this issue. Not sure about the RAF Ad-jobs for the boys AND British Imperialism!
Marverine Cole (@TVMarv) 04/07/2015 09:48
@A_MAbbasah nice article. Good luck. You will need lots of it! Think about pursuing broadcast journalism @NUJofficial
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Rachael Grealish (@RachaelGrealish) 02/07/2015 14:47 A quick break with the newest issue of the @NUJofficial The Journalist? Don’t mind if I do!
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