A remarkable before-and-after experiment provides conclusive evidence: the BBC favours the right and excludes the left.
Category: media
How Bad Science Sticks
A horrible illness has been widely neglected, thanks in part to the influence of a cruel and bizarre cult.
Thinktanking the Country
The BBC’s promotion of dark-money lobby groups no longer looks like an accident. It looks like a policy.
Losing It
Faced with the gathering collapse of the biosphere, and governments’ refusal to take the necessary action, how do we stop ourselves from falling apart?
Bloodhounds
The media’s lust for blood helped march us into the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wants us to forget that.
This Stinks
Our rivers and seas are being transformed into open sewers by greedy business and useless governments.
Extinction’s Collaborators
How the media stoked the climate crisis.
The Sleep of Reason
Far from holding the government to account, as it claims, most of the media was fast asleep while massive scandals brewed.
Commanding View
The BBC amplifies the voices of billionaires, and shuts down those who challenge them.
News is the Propaganda of the Oligarch
We’ve taken drastic action to try to stop the election from being won by outrageous lies.
Owned
As I’ve found to my cost, the billionaire press seeks to kill change before it happens.
Bring On the Clowns
By selecting obnoxious twerps as its contributors, the media is changing the character of the nation
You Want It Darker?
The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.
In a World of Their Own
By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance.
Personality Cult
The media’s spotlight systematically distorts the way we see the world
Comfort Zone
If you want to see real no-platforming, look at the newspapers
Press Gang
The media was exposed in this election as wildly out of touch with the nation. This is not surprising, as it lives in a hall of mirrors.
Black Hole
The fake grassroots campaign run by grouse shooters is just one instance of the way democracy is being bypassed
The Purse is Mightier Than the Pen
The climate crisis is here, now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know.
Rare Specimen
My interview, in his 90th year, with Sir David Attenborough