Calm down about the heatwave? The right-wing press takes us for fools
Commentators fall back on patronising clichés to promote climate scepticism.
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In the cyber war between Russia and Ukraine, media companies are under threat
Figures show a large spike in attacks on journalism and civil society organisations since the invasion.
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The art of drawing Boris Johnson for the New Statesman
Having illustrated 22 Johnson covers for the NS, I have studied him closely; his hair is the sole element of…
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Newspapers in glass houses throw stones at the BBC
Trust has fallen in the state broadcaster, but it’s down more somewhere else.
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Why CBBC and BBC Four moving online might not be such a bad idea
Who watches TV these days anyway?
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Criticising the government isn’t journalistic bias – it goes with the job
Boris Johnson and his party have weaponised their own definition of impartiality, to the detriment of democracy.
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How the BBC became a “football” in the climate culture war
Climate contrarians are losing their ideological battle as net zero makes increasing economic and environmental sense.
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The joyless rise of Anna Wintour
Amy Odell’s new account of the iron-fisted Vogue editor’s ascent struggles to find the human being behind the shades.
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Is the BBC misrepresenting climate change?
A blogger with ties to climate change deniers is leading the charge against the BBC’s environmental coverage.
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“We’re going to disrupt”: A year inside GB News
Faced with a new rival, can the channel survive? Staffers share the story of a tumultuous 12 months.
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Channel 4 can be saved from privatisation – here’s how
If opposition parties committed to renationalising the broadcaster, it could kill the Tory plan stone dead.
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Privatising Channel 4 is bad business, bad politics and bad Conservatism
Nadine Dorries’s desire for state interference in a successful enterprise is the antithesis of what the Tories claim to represent.
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We can congratulate Laura Kuenssberg for her seven years in a near-impossible job
The next political editor of the BBC, whoever it is, would be well advised to turn off the Twitter machine.
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Terry Christian: What the most hated man in television did next
As the star of trashy but impossible-to-ignore The Word, Christian has almost become a symbol of the 1990s. Now, he says,…
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Grayson Perry: The rise and fall of Default Man
How did the straight, white, middle-class Default Man take control of our society – and how can he be dethroned?
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Brown declares “it is people that decide elections” as the paper abandons Labour
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