Media Integrity
Express and Mail fail the migration stats test
The ONS Quarterly Migration Report yesterday gave rise to media headlines about a big rise in immigration - even though immigration had hardly risen at all.
Daily Mail cherry picks data to bash life-saving speed cameras
The Daily Mail's battle against life-saving technology and defence of unnaccountable law-breaking continued today with a blast at speed cameras that ignores the evidence.
Express’s £1billion claim on immigrant housing is absurd
Migrationwatch has claimed that immigrant demand for social housing will cost £1billion per year - but the facts do not stack up.
Government’s spin war on disabled continues
The government keeps spinning against disabled people using the work and statistics of the discredited Atos organisation, reports Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton.
Morgan, Mensch and Parliamentary Privilege
Evan Price, a barrister at ten old square in Lincoln’s Inn, writes on Parliamentary Privilege and the phone hacking row between Piers Morgan and Louise Mensch.
Murdoch could be jailed for “life of the Parliament” if guilty of contempt
James Murdoch faces a maximum sentence of being "committed to prison during the life of the Parliament" if he is found to have misled the media select committee.