Media

Records show the leader of the house's grandeur isn't all it seems. MANDRAKE is eager to see his old friend on an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

Overseas observers are talking about Britain like it's suffered a natural disaster, says ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

A weakened PM must now follow their agenda on the BBC, immigration and Covid

Boris Johnson's director of communications is quite the natural when it comes to obtaining personal mobile numbers. MANDRAKE wonders if this sometimes has sinister consequences.

They will try to claim victory whatever it says - and they've put a brilliant civil servant in an impossible position

As the national dialogue is swamped with Partygate, yet another young woman has been killed. Her name was Ashling Murphy, she was 23 years old and she was going for a run.

It’s home to pro-Brexit groups and climate change sceptics. But just how much power over this government is wielded by the tenants of 55 Tufton Street?

America has always been full of 'Rampaging White People'. But if anyone can face them it's Joe Biden, writes BONNIE GREER.

The director-general has expressed his passion for total transparency, and feels what has been declared thus far only scratches the surface...

The Fox News host said during his interview with Nigel Farage that contracting Covid had, like others, emasculated, weakened and feminised Boris Johnson. But becoming feminine is not a synonym for weakness, nor has it got anything to do with the virus.

While the public followed the rules last year, the government thought it best to break them and play party games instead writes ALASTAIR CAMPBELL.

The Labour leader's early legal life was fuelled by risk-averse stories and redactions.

As crises mount, the polls show voters turning at last. But the national newspapers that backed Leave – even the two now edited by Remainers – continue to pretend there is nothing wrong.

It won't be opposition MPs that decide the future of Channel 4 - but politicians sat on the government benches. Here's why they should reconsider plans for privatisation.

From the BBC downwards, the UK media is consistently failing in its reporting of this government.

Why getting kids from poor backgrounds into journalism is a priority

The murder of journalists calls into question the ability or willingness of some European states to safeguard the freedom of journalists.

The country’s media is being forced back to the dark days of the Iron Curtain, warns ex-Europe minister DENIS MACSHANE, a former journalist once arrested in Warsaw by the communist authorities

Since 2016, The New European's award-winning newspaper has been the torchbearer for pan-European comment and insight on how our continent can be a better place for all. Now we've got a website to match.

Did the Brexit vote swing on a basic misunderstanding of public finances? Did people die of Covid because our politicians are innumerate? LIZ GERARD explores Britain’s hopelessness in the face of big numbers

It’s a decade since the demise of the News of the World and today’s toothless tabloids are a shadow of their former ferocious selves. Should we mourn or celebrate their decline? And could they have stopped Brexit?  They were the cheeky chappies, rumbustious and irreverent, saucier than a Donald McGill postcard; always game to poke […]

Established a pop-up paper in 2016 due to last only four issues, The New European turns five this week. Former editor of the Financial Times LIONEL BARBER explains why it has found a niche and how it can help shape European debate

The New European has been praised for having some of the best front covers on the newsstands. And now, after five years, we’re looking to declare the best cover of all time.  We’ve painstakingly whittled down the selection to just ten out of 250 editions, with the readers now being given their opportunity to vote […]

The much-discussed culture war is being manufactured by the right, in order to obscure the real wounds in society The Remainers have been routed, the immigrants outed. Jeremy Corbyn has gone and Keir Starmer never really arrived. Everything should be wonderful in Great Borisland. But it isn’t, so who is to blame? The kraken wokes: […]

Andrew Neil has launched a new channel, GB News. Now, comedian Mitch Benn is starting his own network for middle-aged, straight, balding white men… MB NEWS IS HERE! Hello, good evening/morning/afternoon and welcome to the exciting launch of my very own news channel, MB NEWS! Yes, like 52% of the GREAT BRITISH PUBLIC (give or […]

The Sun's days could be numbered, writes LIZ GERARD.

A history of the radical, revolutionary, rowdy roots of the newspaper industry make for a rip-roaring read “We are afsured from good authority that the First Consul of France – has been swallowed by a Whale!” Give or take the odd “f” instead of “s”, this could have come on the Sunday Sport archive, next to […]

Sky News presenter Kay Burley has returned to work after being suspended for six months for breaking Covid-19 rules. The journalist said it was “great to be back” as she introduced Monday morning’s show, featuring interviews with former prime minister Gordon Brown, Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees and shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy. Burley was suspended […]

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 […]