Why is Top Gear, alone among BBC programmes, allowed to keep breaking editorial guidelines?
Category: media
A Hippocratic Oath for Journalists
What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer.
For How Much Longer Can This Go On?
Christopher Booker is now in even deeper trouble than before: damned in a High Court judgement. Yet still the Sunday Telegraph employs him.
Robot Wars
Online astroturfing is more advanced and more automated than we’d imagined.
Reclaim the Cyber-Commons
The internet is being captured by organised trolls. It’s time we fought back.
Impervious to Learning
David Rose appears to have learnt nothing from his catastrophic mistakes before the Iraq war.
Deep Peace in Techno-Utopia
A new film on Channel 4 disses the greens while dodging the issue of power.
The Smearing of an Innocent man
The report we publish for the first time today proves that the serious charges made against Rajendra Pachauri are completely untrue.
A Ginger Revolution
Grassroots campaigns could break Britain’s corrupt political system
Champions of the Overdog
Local papers are vanishing. Does it matter?
The Hanging Judge
Why has Mr Justice Eady been allowed to conduct a one-man campaign against free speech?
It Doesn’t Get Madder Than This
The Spectator’s new editor has lost it before he even had it.
The Patron Saint of Charlatans
How does Christopher Booker get away with it?
The Price of Free Speech
A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.
The Lunar Conspiracy
A Proposal to Hamish Mykura, Head of Documentaries, Channel 4
Swindled Again
A response to Channel 4’s head of documentaries, Hamish Mykura
An Ongoing Swindle
The Great Global Warming Swindle is just one example of Channel 4’s war against the greens
The Self-Justifying Myth
People love films like The Great Global Warming Swindle, because they tell us what we want to believe.
Anticipatory Compliance
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t even have to ask to get what he wants.
A Likely Story
As the evidence accumulates, the Evening Standard’s allegations of terrorist planning have fallen apart.