In 1992, after earlier political activities, he began to work as an editor and journalist, writing first about international relations and then increasingly about issues to do with the natural sciences and their role in society.
[2] However, an examination of the substance of this case by a professor David Campbell of cultural and political geography at Durham University showed that the key claims made by Deichmann and LM are "erroneous and flawed".
At the beginning of his summation, High Court Judge Morland defined what the libel case was about: “Members of the jury, you may well think that in a democratic society it is vital that journalists are fearless, investigative reporters.
The LM defendants and Thomas Deichmann were properly represented at the trial and were able to lay out all the details of their claim that the ITN reporters had "deliberately misrepresented" the situation at Trnopolje.
(That they didn't take up the opportunity to cross-examine the Bosnian doctor imprisoned at Trnopolje, who featured in the ITN stories and was called to testify on the conditions he and others suffered, was perhaps the moment any remaining shred of credibility for LM's allegations evaporated).
They were able to show the ITN reports to the court, including the rushes from which the final TV stories were edited, and conduct a forensic examination of the visuals they alleged were deceitful.
Despite their failure, those who lied about the ITN reports have had no trouble obtaining regular access to the mainstream media in Britain, where they continue to make their case as though the 2000 court verdict simply didn't exist.
[citation needed] Another subject of his writing has been the growing influence of green ideas, something he calls "ecologism", as well as consumer protection policies – developments he views as symptoms of a deep-seated social misanthropy, of governments that lack any vision of the future and thus promote fear and a nanny state.