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There was a large march and rally in defence of the NHS in Manchester yesterday - yet the BBC's coverage largely glossed over it, only including it in coverage of Tory conference. Andy Burnham, who was one of the speakers at yesterday's…
One of my earliest memories of how mad left wing politics got in the 80s is of listening to a group of adults arguing over whether charity is inherently right wing. That by stepping in where the state was withdrawing, charities were…
Budget leaks "George Osborne is under pressure from Conservative MPs to introduce a promised marriage tax allowance to ensure that stay-at-home parents are not penalised by new childcare benefits unveiled by the government on Tuesday. As a…
Reacting to the appointment of Tony Hall as the BBC's new Director General, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Harriet Harman said: "Tony Hall is an excellent choice as the new Director-General of the BBC, with…
Last week their was a piece in The Times by Rachel Sylvester that sought to resurrect the old Ed Balls bully boy line (I wrote for the New Statesman on why I think it's all a bit old hat). Yet the media has never been interested enough…
A couple of weeks ago I noted that Boris Johnson loathes BBC News, despite previously having said that he doesn't watch it much. Johnson said: “the prevailing view of Beeb newsrooms is, with honourable exceptions, statist, corporatist…
Boris 2012 "the prevailing view of Beeb newsrooms is, with honourable exceptions, statist, corporatist, defeatist, anti-business, Europhile and, above all, overwhelmingly biased to the Left." Boris 2010 "I consume vast quantities of news –…
The Tories have long been accused of acting as if they are “born to rule”. The arrogance that come with having been seen by themselves and others as the natural Party of Government for most of the 20th Century was little dented in the 13…
I am writing to complain about the appalling coverage of the government's proposals on employment law on the Today programme on Wednesday 23 November. This was presented as a one sided view, lacked sufficient vigour in probing the…
By Conor Pope / @conorpope A sallow-faced man watches television alone in a lampless room. The curtains are drawn, a bleak sunlight seeping in around the edges. He takes a bite out of an empty sandwich. The news is on. Newspapers have been…
By Ryan Thomas With the recent and slow-motion collapse of the Gaddafi regime in Libya dominating media coverage of late, it is perhaps easy to forget about one of the other major stories of the past few months, the phone hacking scandal…
By Sue Marsh / @suey2y After two weeks of extraordinary events surrounding our media, our police and our politicians, yesterday saw Rupert Murdoch withdraw his offer for BSkyB. He did it under enormous pressure, not out of the goodness of…
