Of course what Joe Lycett said wasn’t funny – that’s literally the point
What was he supposed to do – joke about how people will freeze to death?
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Critics accuse the BBC of bias, but its reporters never bow to political pressure
My time at the broadcaster has been marked by successive governments trying to make the BBC their messenger. It hasn’t…
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The BBC has a problem – but not the one Emily Maitlis thinks
By kowtowing to its enemies the BBC is alienating its friends.
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Emily Maitlis knows what’s up at the BBC
Tory bias is real – just ask Robbie Gibb.
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Why do we still have a problem with “unlikeable” female characters?
Warning: this article contains discussion of an imperfect woman.
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The only winners of Wagatha Christie are the tabloids
Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy wouldn’t be in court if not for the press, and the press will reap the…
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Bertrand Russell, YouTube star
The stately philosopher’s online fame reveals Gen Z as a demographic desperate for certainty.
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Social media’s consent problem
We may have opted in to social media but we have not – could never have – agreed to everything…
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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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