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Farage and the Mail were previously close ideological bedfellows.
From ‘make do’ to ‘make merry’: Britons did their best to forget the hardships of war at Christmas in 1942.
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By the fourth festive season into the war, rationing was biting – but good news from the front and the generosity of US soldiers helped keep morale buoyant.
Criminal barristers continue to protest the problems with the UK justice system.
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The inevitable consequence of a criminal justice system in crisis is people being wrongfully convicted. The media has a crucial role to play in monitoring the law.
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While most daily newspapers presented the conflict as black and white, weeklies presented readers with a more sophisticated and nuanced take.
British Muslims protesting their treatment by the UK media in 2007. Nothing much has changed.
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Press reports about Islam have often been misleading or discriminatory. This new advice does little to help journalists avoid that.
Boris Johnson presents the latest information at a Downing Street afternoon briefing.
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The government’s decision to televise daily briefings from Downing Street may not be as much of a commitment to transparency as it’s claimed to be.
Lockdown comes into force in Britain, March 23.
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The government is under relentless pressure from the UK media to relax the strict lockdown rules. That could be a dangerous mistake.
As usual, the UK media landscape offered partisan coverage of the 2019 election.
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It wasn’t the ‘Sun wot won it’, but the partisanship of the UK press made the Conservatives’ task a great deal easier.
Why does the UK media play to the Conservative Party’s strengths?
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Newspapers and broadcasters have been more likely to focus on issues the Conservatives want people to talk about.
Boris Johnson and Plymouth parliamentary candidate, Rebecca Smith in front of a statue of Nancy Astor.
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It isn’t just politicians: experts, business representatives, even academics quoted in the media are more likely to be male.
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In 2017 Labour did better than expected because it moved debate away from Brexit. It will need to do the same in 2019.
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Analysis of the first week of the campaign shows that not all publicity is good publicity.
Competing voices: alt-media personalities Tom Harwood of Guido Fawkes, left, and Ash Sarkar of Novara Media.
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A new genre of political media is influencing people that mainstream commentators seem unable to reach.
Rivals: UK prime minister Boris Johnson, right, and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn at the Remembrance Day ceremony in London, November 11 2019.
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As the election campaign hots up we explore how the parties are exploiting videos on their social media accounts.
Penny for the guys?
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Which messages and formats are cutting through the most?
Prince Harry says his wife Meghan has been ‘vilified almost daily for the past nine months’.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex say they plan to sue a UK paper for publishing a private letter.
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A number of recent controversial stories show why the UK media needs a regulator with teeth.
Edward Lloyd founded the first million-selling newspaper.
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As well as founding England’s first million-selling newspaper, Lloyd shamelessly sold plagiarised versions of some of Charles Dickens’ best-loved novels.
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Residents were blogging about the tower block’s safety issues well before the fire, but there were few reporters around to pick up on the story.
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Journalists have to communicate research without reducing interest or readability — but the public needs accuracy.