A remarkable before-and-after experiment provides conclusive evidence: the BBC favours the right and excludes the left. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st May 2025 It’s no longer even pretending. Last week, the BBC, already the UK’s most prolific censor, instructed the presenter Evan Davis to drop the podcast he hosted in his own […]
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ABC management have sent out a memo to all staff with an offer for grief counselling to any staff who may need it, should the ABC’s favourite politician, Peter Dutton, lose this weekend’s federal election. ”The relationship between the ABC... Read More ›
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores the latest worrying sign of the BBC's flawed interpretation of 'impartiality'
Borders are now being used not just to prevent the passage of people, but of ideas too, argues Iain Overton
Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent 'public opinion' - they simply reflect the radical right views of those 'who own and run them', argues Julian Petley
Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, on the urgent need for media accuracy and why joining Impress, the independent press regulator, is the best way for us to uphold those values
This is the second in a very occasional series of posts discussing the following proposition: in the English-speaking world, the last 50 years has seen a dramatic increase in the quantity and quality of text and visual mass media intended for children. The first post, on kids’ animated cartoons, is here. As noted in that […]
Peter Dutton’s head cheerleaders, Sky News Australia, have spent the last night trying to link Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with the death of the Pope. ”Can the Prime Minister prove his whereabouts on the night the Pope died?” Asked Sky... Read More ›
Parts of the British media have expressed outrage after Renaud Camus, who originated the far-right 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory was banned from entering the UK
We are here today because democracy is on death row, because the treasured right to dissent is at gunpoint, because your capacity to do journalism is under fire. I remember when I came to Britain as a student in 1978 how overjoyed I was to be in a country where I felt safe from the […]
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