Yesterday’s Mail lays out the Conservative strategy against Labour in the upcoming election: appealing to xenophobia, anti-European sentiment, and framing climate change as an economic rather than humanitarian issue.
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The media industries now condemning Russell Brand should examine their role in the scandal, and ensure staff can independently report “The Talent” when they see similar behaviour.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer should be commended for working to tackle ‘Slapps’, but we’d be in good hands if Sir Chris Bryant takes the reins to finish the work.
Radio 4’s Today deserves a pat on the back for its exceptional journalism on the RAAC scandal and ‘Martha’s rule’.
A slew of blatant plants of articles in the press from both Tories and Labour undermine journalistic credibility.
Brexit coverage has remained off the menu, even as the hospitality industry is crumbling under post-Brexit business realities.
A newspaper with a history of Conservative ownership and readership is hardly going to suddenly veer to the left, but a new, more independent owner could revisit the sins of the recent past and put them right.
Until recently, the regulator was sitting on its hands when it should have been active in punishing sitting Conservative politicians for hosting GB News and TalkTV programmes.
A thorough review of the BBC’s licence fee is necessary, but it must consider that such a fee, perhaps turned into a household charge, may be the least-bad option.
The commercial departments of Brexit-supporting newspapers know the damage being caused to the UK economy, and newspaper advertising revenues, by Brexit. Their editorial colleagues continue to support it anyway.