Left Foot Forward
Emily Maitlis says BBC was keen to ‘pacify Number 10’ over Newsnight monologue
"We show our impartiality when we report without fear or favour, when we’re not scared to hold power to account, even when it feels uncomfortable to do so."
Who is Sir Robbie Gibb, the ‘active agent of Tory party’, shaping BBC news output?
Gibb was appointed to the BBC’s board last year by Boris Johnson and has played an influential role assessing the impartiality of the BBC’s coverage.
10 massive pay rises and cost of living payments Unite has won for workers in recent weeks
The union has won massive pay rises for its members in recent weeks
Liz Truss condemned after her refusal to confirm she would appoint a new government ethics adviser
Truss argued that she wouldn’t need an ethics adviser because she knows the difference between right and wrong.
Tories quietly publish ‘dangerous’ plan to neuter elections watchdog and undermine its independence
The proposals had been branded ‘extremely dangerous’ by the chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life when they were first suggested.
Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’
The Labour Party says its analysis shows that since 2016, when Truss was in charge of Defra – raw sewage discharge more than doubled from 14.7 per overflow in 2016 to 29.3 in 2021.