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Keir Starmer’s Labour Government Is Much Better Than the Media Admits
There is a deep disconnect between the Government’s actions to improve the country and its standing in the polls, argues Professor Chris Painter
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Daily Mail Trial: ‘My Every Move, Thought or Feeling Was Being Tracked and Monitored Just for the Mail to Make Money Out of It’
As Elizabeth Hurley and Prince Harry give evidence at the Mail trial, some wider themes and personalities emerge beyond the claims of illegality
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Daily Mail Trial: British People Say Press Standards Haven’t Improved Since Phone Hacking Scandal
As the Daily Mail goes on trial for alleged lawbreaking, a new poll finds seven-in-ten voters demand independent regulation of the press
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Daily Mail High Court Trial Casts Shadow Over Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph Bid
Allegations that the Mail engaged in phone hacking, landline tapping, burglaries, and the theft of medical records are threatening to derail its £500 million takeover of the Telegraph
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‘A Victim All Over Again’: The Mail Trial and the Murders of Stephen Lawrence and Daniel Morgan
Peter Jukes looks at how an ongoing High Court case plunges us back over thirty years to two murders in south‑east London and to a nexus of corrupt police officers and private investigators
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‘That Phone Could Hold the Truth’: Levi Davis Family Says Investigator Withheld Evidence
A private investigator who offered to help the family of missing rugby and reality TV star Levi Davis is accused of taking possession of his iPhone and then failing to return it
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Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
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Caroline Flack: Tried By Tabloid
More than four years on from the TV presenter’s death, her mother laments that the Labour Government is ‘scared of the press’ and will not consider media reform
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The Sun Newspaper Wages War Against Gambling Taxes – While Holding Huge Betting Stakes Itself
Rupert Murdoch’s paper recruits Nigel Farage, Conservative and Labour backbenchers for ‘Save Our Bets’ campaign – while holding lucrative betting partnerships worth millions
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won’t Tell You About
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK’s transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues Donnachadh McCarthy
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The Media Distortion Warping Britain’s Views on Immigration
Unbalanced coverage of migration is twisting the public’s perspective, argues Christian Christensen
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Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain
Keir Starmer has signalled the direction of his Government by appointing a former Editor of The Sun newspaper – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor, writes Emma Jones
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Lucy Connolly, Bob Vylan and the False Claims of a ‘Two Tier Justice System’
Attempts to claim that the treatment of Lucy Connolly and Bob Vylan in any way demonstrate a “two tier” justice system are completely wide of the mark, argues barrister Gareth Roberts
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‘The Telegraph Headline That Exposes the Hollowness of Right-Wing Rage’
The coverage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla tells you everything you need to know about the media’s failings, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
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‘Total Information Collapse’ and the Tribunal of Truth
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
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How the British Media Laundered a Far Right Conspiracist’s Reputation
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
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Dan Wootton Hit With £7,500 Costs Over Failed Court Bid to Name ‘Catfishing Victim’
The former GB News host failed to overturn a High Court order protecting the anonymity of a man he allegedly catfished into sharing sexual material online
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Moscow’s Ties to the Georgian Regime Ran Through Kensington and Chelsea
Leaked documents reveal how UK firm Hunnewell Partners, controlled by alleged enablers of Georgia’s ruling oligarch, facilitated a top Putin crony’s attempts to exploit the collapse of a more than $1.5bn corruption scheme in Uzbekistan
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How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are ‘Illegal Migrants’
There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations, argues Zoe Gardner
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‘No There Has Not Been an ‘Exodus’ of UK Millionaires and New Wealth Taxes Won’t Force Them to Leave Either’
Forget the fear-mongering about a flight of the super rich. The reality is they’re not going anywhere, argues Kate Bermingham
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Mazher ‘Fake Sheik’ Mahmood Off the Hook in Prince Harry Case
The News of the World hired security guards from a Daniel Morgan murder suspect to protect Mahmood in court
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Government Confirms No Leveson 2 Inquiry Into the Press – After ‘Monumental’ Admission of Wrongdoing By News UK in Prince Harry Case
Murdoch’s newspaper group apologises for 15 years of privacy breaches in landmark settlement – but the Prime Minister’s office quickly dismisses calls for a fresh investigation
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Tortoise and the Heir: The ‘Slow News’ Media Firm Behind the Observer Sale and the Curious Company It Keeps
As the Guardian announces the ‘sale’ of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, Carole Cadwalladr takes a closer look at its moneymen
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Running with the Hares: Why The Guardian’s Observer Sale to Tortoise Will End in Tears
Guardian Media Group journalists are right to resist plans to sell the Observer newspaper to James Harding’s Tortoise Media, argues Mic Wright
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Fresh Evidence in Missing Levi Davis Cold Case Sparks Top-Level Calls for New Probe
Dan Evans and Tom Latchem reveal fresh evidence in one of the most baffling missing person cases of recent years
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Claim of a Deal Between The Sun and Starmer Is ‘Conspiracy Theory Created For Clicks’, News UK Insiders Say
‘No such deal was done with Starmer. It simply did not happen’, one of a number of sources told Byline Times
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Revealed: The Sun’s “Catch & Kill” Deals with Celebrities
“News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.” Byline Times exposes a practice used by Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid to suppress negative celebrity stories
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The Jewish Chronicle Crisis Should Mean the End for Sham Press Regulator IPSO
Labour says press regulation must be effective and independent. As never before, the press industry’s tame complaints body stands exposed as neither. For all our sakes, the government must call time, argues Brian Cathcart.
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Victims of Jewish Chronicle Falsehoods are Demanding Action from Press Regulators
A series of columnists have resigned from the paper over fabrications in articles by former IDF soldier Elon Perry. Now victims of the publication’s false claims are speaking up
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Climate Activists Accuse ‘Billionaire Media’ of Driving Protest Crackdown
The Director of the Climate Media Coalition explained the role of media moguls in demanding a crack down on climate protesters
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#MediaWatch: Supping with the Devil with a Long Spoon
As the TUC passes a motion warning of the “existential crisis” in British journalism, Peter Jukes asks for your help to deal with the dual threats of legacy media monopolies and big tech
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‘BBC, Bias and Gaza: A Partial Study of Impartiality’
A new much publicised report that claims the BBC is “heavily biased against Israel” flies in the face of other specialist and academic studies
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The ‘Bored’ Millionaire Buying up Britain’s Right-Wing Media: Paul Marshall ‘Set to Buy’ The Spectator
‘Tory bible’ set to fall into hands of tycoon who liked tweets about ‘civil war’ and ‘mass expulsions’ of migrants
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The Real ‘Two Tier’ Politics That Enabled Nigel Farage to Fan the Flames of Hate
The politics of anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hatred pushed by the Reform leader and his supporters has been tolerated for far too long
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Starmer’s ‘Supermajority’: A Product of Conservative Propaganda and Client Journalism
How a Conservative campaign line became the weaponised mantra of the Daily Mail – and infected the entire general election campaign
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‘The Great Noticing’: What the Reaction to Keir Starmer’s Friday Night Dinners Tells us About the Hypocrisy of the Conservative Press
As Labour heads towards Government, large parts of the press are suddenly starting to notice things they have spent the past 14 years ignoring
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A Revealing Argument from The Times of London: ‘Don’t Worry About Journalistic Ethics, What Matters is the Money’
Columnist Gerard Baker glossed over the Murdoch press’ criminality in a recent comment piece – and the accusations against his own Editor. Why?
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Will Lewis and The Washington Post: ‘Real Journalists Don’t Ignore the Failings of Their Own Industry the Way the UK Press Does’
In the US, reporters on The Washington Post are investigating their own bosses – and their stories get published. It is hard to even contemplate such fearless reporting happening in the UK, writes Brian Cathcart
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Telegraph Pours Thousands of Pounds Pushing Anti-Labour Stories on Social Media
The right-wing newspaper’s ads seem to skirt the line of partisan campaigning, prompting a note from the Electoral Commission…
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The Spectacle of Impunity: Phone-Hacking Cover-Up Claims Cross the Atlantic
With news that senior Murdoch executives now face a civil trial, Peter Jukes looks back on a decade of deceit
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Murdoch Empire Hacked Politicians for Commercial Gain and Hid Evidence, New Report Suggests
New evidence suggests that Murdoch’s company targeted politicians of every rank, including the Attorney General and Chancellor
