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The Crisis in British Journalism

Byline Times investigates media monopolies, their proximity to politicians, and how the punditocracy doesn't hold power to account

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The Fleet Street ‘Friendlies’ Climb On Board Braverman’s Prison Ships

, 29 March 2023
The Home Secretary's tabloid-pleasing plans to float desperate refugees offshore are designed to distract from the Government's own failings, reports Adam Bienkov

Leaked Whatsapps Destroy the BBC’s Impartiality Myth

, 15 March 2023
Messages sent between BBC editors and reporters appear to confirm longstanding suspicions of a pro-Government bias inside the corporation, writes Adam Bienkov

‘The BBC’s Pursuit of Bogus ‘Impartiality’ Finally Crashes and Burns’

, 12 March 2023
After years of appeasing its enemies, former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse believes the BBC's destruction from within has been spectacularly exposed

Gary Lineker, Andrew Neil and the BBC’s Real Impartiality Crisis

, 9 March 2023
Prominent right-wingers at the BBC have long been given the sort of leeway for their views that those on the left never will, writes Adam Bienkov

‘Oakeshott, the Telegraph and Unscientific Anti-Lockdown Propaganda’

, 6 March 2023
Kate Denkinson looks at the background to Isabel Oakeshott’s Lockdown Files and the newspaper which Boris Johnson once claimed was his ‘real boss’  

‘Incompetent Ministers and Duplicitous Journalists:’ The Matt Hancock Leaks

, 2 March 2023
Isabel Oakeshott's exposé comes in the wake of repeated rejections by the Government of every Freedom of Information request on the disclosure of ministers' use of WhatsApp for official business, reports Iain Overton

Cropped Out: The Curious Tale of the BBC, Brexit and our Missing Vegetables

, 24 February 2023
Former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse explores why the BBC’s reluctance to tell us when we are being lied to is well past its sell by date

‘Blaming Dead Women’

, 14 February 2023
When men kill women, there still seems to be a desire to pin the blame on her, writes Sian Norris

Open Letter to the Owner of GB News from a Ukrainian Refugee: Stop Peddling Russian Narratives

, 13 February 2023
Journalist Maria Romanenko calls on Sir Paul Marshall, a major shareholder in the British TV news station, to avoid Kremlin propaganda

‘The Sun, Clarkson, Meghan and IPSO – Prepare for Another Shaming Episode of Non-Regulation’

, 10 February 2023
The public is being strung along – again. No matter how outraged you were by the vicious words used against the Duchess of Sussex, nothing will change and the press will do it again, writes Brian Cathcart

‘The Boris Johnson Loan Scandal Shows how Cronyism Corrupts Public Life’

, 7 February 2023
BBC Chairman Richard Sharp's hidden involvement in arranging a £800,000 loan for the former PM exposes the gilded upper circles of politics and media in the UK, writes Adam Bienkov

The Rise of Fringe Science, Contrarian Doctors, and the Threat to Public Health

, 24 January 2023
Dr David Robert Grimes looks at the partisan polarisation and obsession with scientists rather than science that makes us prone to medical misinformation and anti-vaccine propaganda

‘The Sharp End of the Stick: Latest BBC Scandal Shows how Hard it will be for the Corporation to Recover’

, 23 January 2023
To survive, the broadcaster's governance needs to be completely overhauled, writes former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse

Britain Needs Wide-Ranging Media Reform – Now

, 16 January 2023
It’s not just Harry and Meghan, we are all paying the price for a dysfunctional, corrupted established media – opposition politicians must take action, writes Brian Cathcart

How the British Press Got Almost Everything Wrong In 2022

, 23 December 2022
If you want to know what happens next in the UK, you'd be better off flipping a coin than listening to most political pundits, argues Adam Bienkov

The Punditocracy and the Subversion of Progress

, 24 May 2022

On Trial: Freedom of the Press

, 14 February 2022

Operation Rebrand: Munira Mirza

, 4 February 2022
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