Daily Mail admits story about Lord Ashcroft predicting a Labour victory was wrong
The Mail has said sorry for reporting a prediction the Tory peer never made
Adam Barnett
Website Adam Barnett is a journalist. Has written for Private Eye, Dissent, New Statesman, Prospect, and the Independent.
False story about Mark Carney repeated by Nigel Farage in media echo chamber
UKIP’s embattled leader uses the papers’ distortion of the bank chief’s views on immigration
Tory press takes the side of the bosses with its anti-union bias
Trade unions don’t ‘hold us to ransom’, they struggle for better pay and working conditions
Express owner Desmond uses paper to protect his £1million UKIP donation
Proprietor Richard Desmond treats his newspaper like a pro-Farage press release
Daily Mail’s junk report claims Bank of England chief blamed migrants for low wages
The Telegraph joins in to selectively quote Mark Carney – and distort what he really said
Tory press spins secret Prince Charles memos to slam Blair on overheated helicopters
Newspapers blast an elected prime minister rather than secret lobbying by an unaccountable monarch
Michael Gove’s wife has selective sympathy for John Bercow
Sarah Vine now feels sorry for the speaker…whom her husband tried to unseat a few weeks ago
Mail wants Tories to close tax loopholes. Does Rothermere know?
Daily Mail accidentally shines light on proprietor’s tax evasion
Express called Tories ‘floppy-haired Eton club’. Now it’s cheering on Cameron
The paper claims it predicted a Tory majority. So why did it back UKIP?
Toby Young’s spurious claim that the BBC’s election coverage had a left-wing bias
The columnist will only be happy when we stop worrying and love the Tories