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Collapse of critical Atlantic current no longer low-likelihood – but where’s the media interest?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 September, 2025

“Why isn’t this headline news? The implications are horrifying …”

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News

Foreign state-owned investors cleared to hold 15% stake in UK newspapers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 August, 2025

The policy may have passed for now, but, as the 170-year-old Telegraph edges closer to foreign-backed ownership, the debate over who funds the British press, and what influence that buys, is far from over.

News

Negative media narrative fuelling anti-Muslim sentiment, new poll suggests

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 July, 2025

“The truth is Muslims are quietly serving this country day in, day out – whether it be in schools, in offices or in the streets – contributing and giving back and helping to build a better society. Yet, these everyday stories rarely make the headlines.”

BBC Broadcasting House
Opinion

How the BBC dismantles the left without us noticing

Claire Jones
24 June, 2025

BBC right-wing bias is peculiarly dangerous precisely because it is subtle and exploits the corporation’s reputation for impartiality

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Right-Wing Media Watch – Trump calls media ‘illegal’ – by that logic, shouldn’t some UK papers be behind bars too?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 March, 2025

At its best, British journalism is very good indeed. But when bad, it can be truly awful. Our tabloid newspapers, in particular, have long been the architects of their own brand of media warfare.

Right-Wing Watch

Trump’s media divide: Business barons cower to his power, while Murdoch resists

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 March, 2025

The coercion of the media to conform to the new administration undermines the integrity of unbiased, factual journalism.

War on Want Executive Director Asad Rehman appearing in a video on far right violence
News

Powerful video explains how mainstream media and politicians have fuelled the far right

Chris Jarvis
8 August, 2024

‘It’s our politicians and the mainstream UK media that have put a target on the backs of black and brown communities.

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News

Boris Johnson to host new show on GB News

Chris Jarvis
27 October, 2023

The former PM is joining the supposedly ‘anti-establishment’ channel

News

‘Dangerous levels of concentrated ownership’ in UK media: Just 3 publishers control 90% of print reach

Basit Mahmood
12 October, 2023

“A free, independent and plural media is essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy.”

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News

NUJ secures 4.5% pay deal from Al Jazeera English

Chris Jarvis
1 November, 2022

Strike action has been called off following the pay agreement

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