The Aporia · John Macleod

Articles

2

2026-09-30 – 2026-10-07

Claims per article

44

89 extracted in total

Hedged claims

3%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

6,592

characters · 1 tagged analysis

Writes for Daily Mail.

Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

Environment

50%

Other

50%

Most-tagged topics

CanadaDonald MorrisonHebrideanKaiserLondonMaraigProject SlingshotVBoat

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2026-10-07 · Daily Mail · Environment

JOHN MacLEOD: A £1billion trade... and the 'silver tourist' we islanders link to the circle of life

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-30 · Daily Mail · Other

Ghosts of the past and a yearning for a time and place that were never really quite there...

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-30 · News | Mail Online

Ghosts of the past and a yearning for a time and place that were never really quite there...

🔮 Or that island just in the edge of living memory when my grandmother did the laundry in the village river, when women often died in childbed, when schoolfellows succumbed to tuberculosis and, if Norman emigrated to Canada, it was most unlikely he would ever see his parents again. assertive

2026-10-07 · News | Mail Online

JOHN MacLEOD: A £1billion trade... and the 'silver tourist' we islanders link to the circle of life

🔮 When the wind was right, I could hear their laughter. assertive

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