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How the media treats the climate emergency

How the media treats the climate emergency

Just how the media covers the climate emergency and what treatment will in get as we approach the general election?  Toxic News? Covering Climate Change, edited by John Mair, John Riley and Andrew Beck attempts to tackle these important questions post COP 28, with the...
The lefty who moved to the right

The lefty who moved to the right

Yorkshireman Sir Bernard Ingham who died on 24 February aged 90 is best known for being Margaret Thatcher’s high profile press secretary a post he held for eleven years. He was regarded as a highly effective propagandist for the Thatcher cause. But he was not always a...

Failing to defend press standards

The other day I came across a surprising quotation from Sir Alan Moses (see below in paragraph 5).  He was the first head of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), the latest incarnation of what passes for a UK press regulator. Ipso came into being...