Outside the system
Column / Investigation: Truth Captured
Oligarch press ownership, BBC capture, disinformation networks, the weaponisation of free speech, and the media’s refusal to investigate itself.
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Everything That Is Wrong With the TV Industry and Why No One Is Watching the News
Carol Vorderman’s Alternative Mactaggart lecture on how snobbery turned people off TV
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‘Elon Musk Must Take a Net-Zero Approach to Violent Hate Speech to Save his Businesses and Credibility’
Elon Musk’s relationship with X is a commercial and political disaster. He badly needs an off-ramp
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Government Approves Expansion of London City Airport, as Climate Campaigners Say Only ‘Private Jet Users’ Will Benefit
Secretaries of State allow passenger numbers to soar by 38% at business airport, despite objections from locals and climate campaigners
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Hate Sells: ‘The Spectator Cannot Defend Douglas Murray But It Won’t Sack Him’
Cutting ties with the controversial columnist and the magazine’s Associate Editor would be bad for business – and it is hard not to conclude that it must agree with him, writes Brian Cathcart
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Who’s a Bigger Threat? ‘Eco-Terrorists’ or Thugs’?
Some have criticised two-year sentences handed out for violent disorder during the riots as excessively harsh. But weeks earlier, Just Stop Oil protesters received four and five-year terms for a peaceful protest
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Just Stop Oil’s ‘Whole Truth Five’ to Appeal Years-Long Sentences after Sun Journalist Exposed M25 Disruption Plans
The five activists face the “longest ever” jail terms for peaceful protest, and international NGOs have rallied behind them
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UK COVID Inquiry Branded ‘Shameful’ for Excluding Voices of Children With Long COVID
Long Covid Kids and Long Covid Scotland met the legal tests of having ‘significant interest’ in matters being investigated, but they were not granted core participant status
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UK Media Condemned for Peddling ‘Unverified’ Israeli Intelligence which Helped Trigger Huge Aid Cuts to Gaza
Cuts to the UN aid agency’s budget in the aftermath of the reports were estimated to have cost it half a billion dollars in crucial emergency funds
