Journalism

Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores the latest worrying sign of the BBC's flawed interpretation of 'impartiality'

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

Apr 01, 2025 Crossposted from “Brave New Europe” At last week’s Paris meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron congratulated themselves on reinserting Europe into the peace process opened up by President Trump. In practice, they have done their best to derail it. Nothing is more foolish than their idea … Continue reading Europe’s Misguided Interventions

This trade war is really a fight for the future of the dollar. 16/04/2025 Trump’s tariff bombardment has torn up the rules by which Western elites have lived for the last 35 years: the rules of a globalising economy under the benign guardianship of a Pax Americana. He is openly challenging opinion makers to change … Continue reading New Statesman: Could John Maynard Keynes fix Trump’s tariff crisis?

The most sinister instances of censorship and repression are happening in America right here, right now

The next big media scandal is only a matter of time, says independent watchdog, after successive governments refuse to further regulate the industry