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Sun ‘clarifies’ calling pregnant police officers “fat blue line”

Emma Burnell
26 October, 2020

The Sun newspaper has issued an apology (or clarification as they call it) for a story published on 29th August claiming that 10,000 UK police officers had been put on ‘light duties’ for being physically unfit. It turns out thattest

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried

Josiah Mortimer
14 October, 2020

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried

Josiah Mortimer
7 October, 2020

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week.

The media are hyping fringe herd immunity views to ‘stir false debate and boost profits’

Josiah Mortimer
7 October, 2020

An open letter – dubbed the Great Barrington Declaration – has been condemned as promoting a dangerous minority position on Covid.

BBC bosses tear apart Tory claims of left-wing bias in fiery Commons hearing

Josiah Mortimer
29 September, 2020

“You want to ignore the evidence…you rely on individual anecdotes,” the BBC chairman told Tory MP Philip Davies.

Satire’s job is to make us all uncomfortable – especially those in power

Tim Worthington
3 September, 2020

Pricking governmental pomposity is important. But satire does more than just that.

National Union of Journalists hits out at PM over ‘dark mutterings’ about BBC overhaul

Josiah Mortimer
2 September, 2020

Tory clamour for an end to the BBC’s universal funding model is growing.

Ministry of Defence blacklists investigative journalism outlet

Josiah Mortimer
2 September, 2020

“We no longer deal with your publication.”

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Ask how politics pays the piper to know who calls the tune

Jamie Beauvais
1 June, 2020

As a government sweetheart deal for big newspapers hits headlines, Jamie Beauvais asks if the concept of free and independent media has been lost.

Right-wing paper rapped by fact-checkers over ‘significantly wrong’ report on EU

Josiah Mortimer
27 May, 2020

The piece, titled “Remoaners’ desperate warning incorrect as UK ditches EU exports” was…incorrect.

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