Mail on Sunday’s shady ‘Calais migrants in hotels’ story is willfully misleading
The paper distorts reality and fuels resentment of hungry asylum seekers
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A xenophobe’s lexicon: anti-migrant language in Calais coverage
‘A swarm of locusts’ – here’s what the words the press are using about Calais actually mean
Telegraph lets Christian bigots slam imaginary ‘Muslim schools’
Why is the Telegraph basing a story on a letter to Ofsted by Christian fundamentalists?
Jeremy Clarkson was sacked over violence, not ‘political correctness’
The Top Gear host’s fate was sealed when he punched a co-worker. But the papers blame the BBC.
The media’s role in the death of Lucy Meadows
Lucy Meadows, a transsexual woman formerly called Nathan Upton, committed suicide earlier this month, the victim of a media witch-hunt. In December, Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn published an attack on her that aimed to hound her out of her job as a primary school teacher.
The DWP’s ‘scrounger’ rhetoric is causing real harm
Following today’s news six major disability charities have warned the government about its use of ‘scrounger’ rhetoric, we look at how widespread it has become.
Look Left – The hate-filled Right hone in on their next target: Disabled people
The hate of the hard Right, bigotry-based commentariat was on ugly display again this week – and this time, it was Britain’s disabled people in their sights.
Liddle’s latest outrage shouldn’t surprise us
Alex Hern reminds everyone that Rod Liddle’s never been the nicest journalist on the block – and that his latest outrageous comments are just par for the course
We shouldn’t abandon the label “extremist” for extremists
To mount an effective challenge to the casual bigotry of the dinner-table as well as the EDL and al-Muhajiroun, Baroness Warsi needs to explain who an extremist is.
Britain’s Netroots must turn online activity into offline protest in 2011
The Netroots UK conference has been a huge success. The ethos of the 570 delegates has been one of learning from each other but single-mindedness about the challenge ahead.