Inside the 'fear factory'

Dear Reader,
Princess Diana’s 1995 Panorama interview shocked the world with its content, but it was also surprising that it was conducted by a young, unknown journalist: Martin Bashir. More than two decades later, we reported exclusively this morning that an independent inquiry by Lord Dyson into the BBC and the conduct of Mr Bashir has found that he deployed deceitful methods to secure the interview, in a breach of BBC editorial rules. You can read details of the extraordinary case here, as well as analysis of the private notes kept by Earl Spencer that proved crucial to the inquiry.
“Cock-up, not conspiracy”, goes the well-worn phrase, but is there something more sinister behind the Government’s repeated flip-flopping on everything from summer holidays to Christmas? Laura Dodsworth certainly thinks so. In her new book, she alleges that ministers have been using vast amounts of behavioural psychology to manipulate the public’s response to the pandemic. She tells Gordon Rayner all about it in this interview.
The much-anticipated green list of approved holiday destinations is not particularly long and gets even shorter once the uninhabited islands are removed. Yet it does include some genuine tourist destinations. Emma Featherstone headed to one, Gibraltar, and filed this lovely dispatch on what it’s like to visit the tiny British territory, which has a fully vaccinated adult population.
Cutting out ultra-processed foods is one of the most common instructions for improving one’s health. Yet, with so many processed products on the market, it’s easier said than done. What exactly are they doing to our bodies? For a new BBC documentary, Dr Chris Van Tulleken made ultra-processed foods 80 per cent of his diet for a month and documented the results. He told Joe Shute about the effect it had on his mind and body, and the simple ways we can all cut down on junk food.
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Chris
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