Brexiteer MP calls for Today programme presenter be sacked
Is this what it’s come to? Right-wing politicians using their platforms to condemn the media?
Today programme
Tory MP roasted on Radio 4 over ‘rolling out the red carpet’ for Saudi prince
Crispin Blunt’s defence of Saudis’ actions in Yemen is almost too painful to watch.
Somehow Farage is STILL unclear on his immigration policy
The UKIP leader just can’t make up his mind about caps
Osborne accused of deliberately misleading committee on VAT
Labour MP says the chancellor set a trap for Ed Miliband which amounts to ‘a very major democracy issue’
HSBC scandal: 4 questions David Cameron needs to answer
Why did the PM miss so many opportunities to act on the allegations against the banking giant?
‘Workers are children, and if you don’t like high pay, move to Cuba’
Alex Hern covers the extraordinary comments of Dr Heather McGregor, who thinks workers are basically children, and that if you don’t live in Cuba, you shouldn’t have a say in how your company is run.
Cameron’s Bullingdon hypocrisy laid bare
David Cameron was grilled over his antics while a member of the posh boy Bullingdon Club today, an issue which exposes him and Boris Johnson as hypocrites.
Weak link Grayling: Wrong on the facts, wrong on the stats
Leading Tory Chris Grayling claims there’s been a “98% INCREASE in serious violent crime” – the true figure, however, is a 50% FALL in violent crime since 1995.
Who can cut the hardest? The narrative firms up
Anyone listening to the Today programme this morning, as discussion began of the Conservatives’ plan to raise the retirement age, could be in no doubt as to how much the media consensus has firmed up behind a virility contest amongtest
Today give platform to climate denier
With the US and EU reportedly at odds over securing a climate deal at Copenhagen, and doctors warning of a “global health catastrophe” if we don’t get one, you might think we need less confusion about climate change in the media, not more. Why then does the Today programme continue to give air-time to people who have no credentials to talk about climate change?