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The corporation was happy to use our exclusive about Elon Musk and the Royal Society - but failed to acknowledge where it came from

Two contributors to the BBC's World at One were at pains to paint the far right thug's London march as just a lovely day out

A report on asylum seekers could have served as a party political broadcast for Nigel Farage’s party

The BBC's political editor penned a review of the Reform conference so fawning it could have come from the party’s press office

The Beeb linked to a 'leaked' setlist for Oasis's comeback gig - except it was a spoof which claimed the band had set aside time for a fight

The prime minister's spokesman declined an opportunity to throw the government's support behind Tim Davie, caught up in a Glastonbury row

The on-screen chemistry between presenters Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt can best be described as glacial

At Glastonbury, the punk-rap duo played to one crowd – and their critics followed by playing to another

The party's candidate for the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty is furious after a BBC interviewer asked her questions and then broadcast her answers

The right wing press doesn’t seem to have a problem with a BBC presenter voicing political views when he’s attacking Labour

Match Of The Day’s presenter has signed an open letter criticising the pulling of a documentary

The paper attacked the BBC over its coverage of the US president – only to follow suit itself

Justin Webb allowed Matt Schlapp to toss out a series of obvious untruths involving Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton and the January 6 riots

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher

The BBC presenter’s flagship weekend politics show faces a doubtful future

The mainstream media made some spectacular errors of judgment in the run-up to the EU referendum and were played for fools by the Leave campaign

You might not know it, but you ruined the country. Obviously nothing to do with the Conservative government

When the powerful cluster to protect one of their own, faith in justice suffers. And all we know for sure is that justice has yet to be done

The Brexit-voting audience was friendly and open to argument – but why was there no one from the government on the panel?

As a new book about the Middle East by the BBC correspondent hits the shelves, he talks about the geopolitics of the region

Boris Johnson's appointees form the clear majority on the BBC's board

There is too little questioning either of the process to choose the next prime minister or scrutiny of the half-baked proposals and vacuous slogans the candidates are bringing to the table

Melvyn Bragg’s autobiography is an affectionate homage to his formative years. But he’s got plenty to say about the culture secretary too

Even before Nadine Dorries’ intervention, the BBC was planning a shake-up to its funding. By JOHN KAMPFNER

Sixty years after his suicide, Ernest Hemingway continues to fascinate. Matt Kelly examines his legacy and credentials as America's great European writer.

The EU’s ambassador to the UK has accused new DUP leader Edwin Poots of making comments about the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol that lack “adherence to reality”. Joao Vale de Almeida was asked about Poots saying that the agreement was “demonstrable harm to every individual in Northern Ireland” and is having a “devastating impact”. The […]

The Corporation's current woes are being exploited for political gain by the government

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said the BBC must project “British values” or face losing its licence fee. Dowden also accused the BBC of adopting a “we know best” attitude following the scandal surrounding its Panorama interview with Princess Diana. In his first detailed response since the report from Lord Dyson was released, Dowden said […]

The government will look at whether reforms of BBC governance are required in the wake of Lord Dyson’s “damning” report on the 1995 Panorama Diana interview, ministers have said. Lord Dyson’s findings that the broadcaster covered up the “deceitful behaviour” of journalist Martin Bashir in the handling of his interview with Diana, Princess of Wales […]

LIZ GERARD crunches the numbers on how Paul Dacre’s Daily Mail covered BBC stories and finds evidence that makes a mockery of the idea of him as an impartial arbiter. Over the last ten years of the Dacre reign, the Daily Mail carried more than 4,000 news stories with BBC in the headline or subhead, about […]

Set in a Britain with zero-Covid and corruption is punished, is this why we love Line of Duty? SUDDEN EPIPHANY OF THE WEEK On Sunday night I was (like, apparently, 80% of the population of the United Kingdom) watching Line of Duty on BBC 1, when I had a sudden realisation: Line of Duty takes […]