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‘Why We Will Apply to Take Ofcom to Court Unless It Explains Its Approach to GB News’
Julian Petley and the Good Law Project argue that the channel is being held to different standards on impartiality from those governing public service broadcasters
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The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues Otto English
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GB News Accused of Spreading an ‘Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory’ Unchallenged – But Ofcom Says It Can’t Act
Claims that migration organisations are controlled by ‘Zionist-type people’ remain online despite growing complaints
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Local Mega-Publisher National World Sees Staff ‘Pushed to Brink’ Amid Cuts and ‘Right-Wing Shift’ – While Journalists Could Be Replaced by ChatGPT
A quarter of staff have been slashed in a year at National World, which owns a raft of city ‘World’ titles and renowned local papers.
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The Conservative Party’s Climate Climbdown
Sascha Lavin explores why the Tory leadership contenders are moving away from the green consensus
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Non-Disclosure Agreements at Media Outlets Like ITN Allow ‘Toxic Environments’ and Harassment to Fester, Senior MP Says
ITN – which runs the news operations of Channel 4 and ITV – has been accused of continuing to use Non-Disclosure Agreements to cover up complaints of harassment and discrimination, a claim the firm strongly denies.
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Three MPs Investigating Phone Hacking Hacked During Their Investigation: ‘An Organised Attack on the Democratic Process’
Former Labour MP Paul Farrelly explains the circumstances surrounding a new legal investigation into whether members of Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), looking into phone-hacking and press criminality, were systematically hacked by Murdoch empire
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Murdoch and Morgan: The Reunion From Hell
Mic Wright unpicks the announcement of a new right-wing, Rupert Murdoch television station in the UK – and how it may have spotted a gap in the market following events at a certain beleaguered anti-woke news channel
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What Depp v Heard Tells Us About Toxic Fandom
Networked harassment, parasocial relationships and good old fashioned misogyny have all turned a domestic abuse into a spectator sport as part of the #MeToo backlash, says Sian Norris
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Is Murdoch’s New Radio Station Part of Dominic Cummings’ Onslaught on his ‘Mortal Enemy’ the BBC?
Ellin Stein considers whether Times Radio could be part of a wider campaign against public service broadcasting in the UK
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Overdue Impartiality: GB News and the Voice of the Octopus
With mounting Ofcom complaints, Julian Petley looks at the ‘person’ behind the controversial new broadcaster and its biases toward climate change
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Rishi Sunak’s Many Failures to Fully Declare his Conflicts of Interests
The claim that the PM’s failure to declare his wife’s investment in a childcare company subsidised by his Government was ‘inadvertent’ is open to question
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GB News is Andrew Neil’s Latest Vehicle for Market Populism
The new ‘anti-woke’ platform is merely a new incarnation of a years-long campaign, explains Julian Petley
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Piers Morgan Unwatched: The Limits of Opportunism
Mic Wright looks at the meteoric fall in ratings of the former tabloid editor and CNN presenter in his new collaboration with Rupert Murdoch
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‘Giving Women Credit is a Good Place to Start’: Harassment and Bullying in the Music Industry
Nick Smith explores what the music business is doing (or not) to put its house in order
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Strangers & Neighbours
Strangers & Neighbours Despite Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” and Reform UK candidates telling voters it “takes more than a piece of paper to make somebody British”, Britain remains a remarkably diverse but cohesive society. So why are government ministers making statements on immigration that would have been considered far-right a decade ago? Why is…
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‘Kevin Spacey Unmasked’: Why Feminists Must Use their Campaigning Experience to Fight Discrimination Against #MenToo
The executive producer of a new compelling documentary into the disgraced actor reveals why being a man should not make a difference when it comes to being a victim of unwanted sexual advances
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Not a Class Act: British Establishment Honours the Man who Ruined Thousands of Lives
The knighthood for Iain Duncan Smith shows the disdain of the ruling class for the most vulnerable people in society, argues Natalie Bloomer
