Sun and Mail debt scare story obscures the truth
Will Straw looks at today’s Sun and Mail scare stories about debt – and reveals the truth.
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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.
Iain Duncan Smith is not “daring to tell the truth” about migrant workers
Iain Duncan-Smith’s ‘bravery’ on immigration may have played well on the Daily Mail, but it ignored several inconvenient facts.
Hurrah for the climate deniers: How the Daily Mail swallowed enviroscepticism whole
Tim Holmes reports on the latest Daily Mail scaremongering and misrepresentation of the climate change debate.
BA/Unite resolution shows civilised negotiation has worked
Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, on the successful resolution of the British Airways strike dispute.
Kelvin MacKenzie, the Daily Mail and press freedom
How Kelvin MacKenzie and the Daily Mail undermine the case for press freedom.
Mail masks Thatcher’s true legacy: Unions busted, hours extended, productivity held back
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher was fewer workplace rights, longer working hours and less productivity in the UK.
Right-wing hate campaign clouds debate on benefits
Sue Marsh from Diary of a Benefit Scrounger, reports on a concerted effort in the right-wing press to prevent any real debate over benefits.
Daily Mail heaps bank debt on nation’s shoulders
The media’s attempt to batter the public into a state of economic illiteracy has been ramped up by the Daily Mail’s attempt to conflate bank bail-outs with the government deficit.