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Oligarch press ownership, BBC capture, disinformation networks, the weaponisation of free speech, and the media’s refusal to investigate itself.
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‘The Police Questioning of Allison Pearson Is a Sign of the Criminal Justice System at Its Best’
The idea Alison Pearson should have avoided investigation simply because of her position at the Daily Telegraph is abhorrent to natural justice, argues lawyer Gareth Roberts
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COP29: The Gap Between Political Action and the Accelerating Pace of Catastrophic Climate Change Is Terrifying
World leaders are failing to commit to the dramatic action required to prevent devastating climate change, reports Mike Buckley from the COP29 summit
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COP29: As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, Trump and World Leaders Are Leaving the Stage
The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed
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GMB Weather Presenter Says Editors Tell Her to Only Highlight the Most Extreme Climate Disasters as There’s Too Many to Cover
“We have to [only] choose the ‘good’ ones that have the best pictures or the highest fatalities”, says Laura Tobin
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Amerexit: Oligarchy Comes to the United States
Peter Jukes in the December Print Edition of Byline Times
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Prince Harry’s Case Against Rupert Murdoch’s UK News Group Looks Likely to Go to Trial
The Prince is suing the publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World alleging it unlawfully obtained private information about him from 1996 until 2011
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COP29: Drastic Action Is Needed to Bring Global Climate Systems Back From the Brink of Collapse
The election of the climate-denying President elect Donald Trump has raised the stakes at this week’s global climate summit
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More Than a Million Pallets of Unusable Covid PPE Costing £8 Billion Have So Far Gone Up in Smoke
Billions of pounds were spent on unusable protective equipment, with priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers
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MediaWatch: The Daily Mail Relies on Its Arch-Nemesis the ECHR for Partial Court Win
Remember this the next time you see a Mail headline lambasting human rights lawyers and the ECHR
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Five News Stories that Got Buried by Donald Trump’s Election Victory
Wondering what you’ve missed amid the noise surrounding Trump’s victory? Here are some stories you won’t have heard much about this past week
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Public Demands Starmer Resurrects Leveson Press Corruption Inquiry Amid Collapse in Trust in UK Media
The mother of late TV presenter Caroline Flack calls for Starmer to “find the courage” to restart it as exclusive new YouGov polling finds public wants reform
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Donald Trump is a Catastrophe for our Climate and we Must Start Preparing for the Disasters to Come
Governments around the world need to act now to prevent the worst of what is coming our way
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MediaWatch: The Sun, the Lib Dems, and the 50% Bus Fare Hike that Never Was
Transport chiefs have rejected misleading claims of a massive hike in bus fares in England, amid confusion and spin
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Ecocide and Genocide: What Trump Wants in Gaza and Why Jill Stein is No Answer
Trump plans to accelerate Israel’s violence in Gaza, male violence against women and industrial violence against the earth. He must be stopped.
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The Climate Case for Having More Children and Why we Should Be Concerned by the UK’s Record low Fertility Rate
We are facing the ‘literally unprecedented demographic stress of a permanently ageing global population’
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Anger from Green Groups and Transport Campaigners as Rachel Reeves Freezes Fuel Duty While Bus Fares Surge
Maintaining the £3bn tax break for motorists has been a long-term campaign of The Sun newspaper
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Pink Boats, Flares and Zombie ‘Die Ins’: Climate Protesters Storm City of London Insurance Giant HQs in Week of Action
Extinction Rebellion activists target 52 firms in week-long campaign demanding end to fossil fuel project insurance, as arrests made in City protests
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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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Labour Government Promises Bereaved Covid Families: ‘Failures of State’ During Pandemic Will Not be Repeated
Keir Starmer’s right hand man throws his weight behind the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, and says inequality played a major factor in the pandemic
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Will Labour Restore the BBC to the National Broadcaster We Need It To Be – Or Believe It Can Benefit from a Subservient Corporation Afraid to Hold Power to Account?
Starmer’s Government has an opportunity to reverse years of Conservative attacks on impartiality and independence – our democracy requires it to act beyond narrow party interests, former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse writes
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Donald Trump, the BBC and the Real ‘Foreign Interference’ in this Election
Why is the BBC giving so much coverage to a complete non-story about Labour and the Democrats, just because the Republican candidate would like them to?
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Telegraph Misled Readers on Climate Change Impact, rules Press Watchdog in Rare Slap-Down
Six-month battle sees Telegraph forced to correct an inaccurate article about the impact of climate change on rail delays
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From the Sea to the Thames: Ocean Rowing MP’s Bid to Put ‘Climate and Nature’ at the Heart of Everything Government Does
Liberal Democrat MP and former ocean rower Dr Roz Savage is challenging the Government’s “narrow” environmental plans
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Clean Water Protesters to March on Parliament Launch as They Urge Labour to Review ‘Failing, Greedy’ System
A clean water coalition is calling for the new Government to enforce existing laws and comprehensively review the UK’s entire water infrastructure and will march on parliament on 3 November
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Hurricane Milton: How Right Wing Media Ignored a Report Showing Climate Change Made the Storm Much Worse
As destruction spreads across Florida this week, Media Storm examines why the media is choosing to ignore the real causes of such extreme weather events
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Starmer’s £22 Billion Carbon Capture Gamble is a ‘Waste of Money and Helps Polluting Sectors Avoid Changing How They Operate’
The Government is making a huge bet on a technology that has never previously delivered, argues climate campaigner Alethea Warrington
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COVID Inquiry: ‘The Headlines That Show the Media Failed to do its Job Before the Second Wave Hit’
When it became apparent that natural immunity would not prevent a second wave, right-wing media backed calls to remove measures and allow immunity to build up via infections
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The Pro-Trump Money Pushing Libertarian ‘Young Voices’ on British TV
Talent agencies funded by right-wing American fossil fuel billionaires are helping to funnel hard right views onto our TV screens
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#MediaWatch: Sky Slammed for ‘Enabling Hate’ by Selling Ads for GB News for Years
Campaigners blast media giant for ‘supporting’ right-wing channel accused of fuelling racist riots, despite Sky’s claims of backing diversity
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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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New Coal, Oil and Gas Projects are Still on the Table under UK Government’s Planning Reforms, say Campaigners
The Government is accused of failing to rule out new fossil fuel projects, and in some cases potentially cheering them on, in updated national plan
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‘Himpathy’: Rape Myths Still ‘Deeply Embedded’ in UK Press Reporting, Analysis Finds
Parts of Britain’s media are still parroting dangerous tropes when talking about sexual violence, according to a new guide
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Access no Areas: How Nigel Farage’s Exclusionary Tactics Come Straight From Trump’s Playbook
‘Cherry-picking attendance harms the breadth of diversity reporting on events – we urge a rethink of the policy, ensuring all journalists can attend future party conferences’
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Candriam Faces ‘Greenwashing’ Accusations Over Investment in Grenfell Fire Company Kingspan
Kingspan was slammed as ‘deeply entrenched and persistently dishonesty’ in the Grenfell Inquiry but has been kept on in ‘sustainable’ investment portfolios
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Qatar 2022: ‘How the Greenest World Cup Ever was the Dirtiest in History’
Fifa president Gianni Infantino boasted that the World Cup would be carbon neutral – here’s what really happened after the final whistle
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Activists to Launch Fresh Wave of Protests Against ‘Draconian’ Anti-Protest Laws as Leading Actress Speaks Out
Campaigners plan civil disobedience outside courts, demanding meeting with Attorney General over harsh sentencing of peaceful protesters
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GB News Spent Half a Million Mainly on Right Wing MPs – Nearly Half on the Reform Party
11 MPs have been paid over £500,000 by the channel over the past year, with £200,000 going to just two Reform Party MPs
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Deplatformed: Nigel Farage’s Reform Bans Byline Times from their Party Conference
Reform UK’s leader claims to be fighting for free speech, but his party has banned a series of critical outlets from their events
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‘If the UK is Serious About Tackling Climate Change it Must Combat Military Emissions’
Like David Lammy, the military recognises the threat of climate breakdown. But that hasn’t stopped the sector’s vast emissions
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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
