RAMZY BAROUD on how Israel’s narrative collides with military failure
Latest editorial
BBC Verify fails to verify its sources
Our state broadcaster is so excited about the dangerous fake news coming from the fringes that it has not bothered to fact-check wildly inaccurate Establishment research, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
The BBC Broadcasting House in London
ROGER McKENZIE explains how Ibrahim Traore has sparked the flames of hope across Africa, while the Western powers seek to extinguish all attempts to build true sovereignty in the long-exploited continent
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
THE BBC’s new Verify unit produced and promoted a documentary on conspiracy theory activists based on a flawed survey by King’s College London (KCL), which the academics now admit claimed there were “significantly more protestors than can be the case in reality.”
While KCL now says its survey does not represent “reality,” BBC Verify, which is supposedly committed to battling “disinformation,” does not think it should offer any correction or worry about the quality of its work.
The BBC heavily promoted its documentary Marianna in Conspiracyland as a programme, podcast and a BBC website article fronted by its “disinformation specialist,” Marianna Spring. The KCL survey got national newspaper coverage on the back of the BBC push.
More from this author
Labour’s pop-loving front bench have snaffled up even more music tickets worth thousands apiece, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
