Novara Live: Meghan Takes Out Morgan
Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the media fallout from the Oprah interview.
Tag: media
Opinion: How Harry and Meghan Quit the Royal Family to Join the US Aristocracy
Ash Sarkar
Meghan and Harry's defection to the states shows that as the world’s ruling classes go, the British elite is rather second-rate, writes Ash Sarkar; for a hot, rich, mixed-race woman who’s married to a prince, there are more attractive options than enduring the petty cruelty of palace apparatchiks.
Opinion: Why Should the BBC Licence Fee Fund Britain’s ‘Soft Power’?
Aaron Bastani
One of the reasons we should care about the BBC, we are told, is because the World Service allows Britain to punch above its weight on the world stage. Aaron Bastani asks: should the licence fee really be funding our country's obsessive pursuit of the illusion of global influence?
Opinion: You Thought Britain’s Media Was Rightwing? By 2024 It Will Be Much, Much Worse
Aaron Bastani
Given 75% of all Britain's national newspapers are controlled by Tory-supporting billionaires, it may seem like our media couldn't be more rightwing. But with the launch of GB News and the BBC under new senior management, things are about to get a whole lot worse, argues Aaron Bastani.
Opinion: The Right is Attempting to Redraw the Boundaries of Reasonable Opinion
Ash Sarkar
Not content to dominate the legislature and own most of the print media, the right also wants to redefine what is reasonable in a bid to discredit experts on the left, argues Ash Sarkar.
Novara FM: After Trump
James Butler is joined by JoAnn Wypijewski and Vivek Chibber to discuss the fallout of the American election.
Opinion: Boris Johnson’s Plan to Ditch the Withdrawal Agreement Shows His Mandate is Built on Lies
Aaron Bastani
Boris Johnson won the 2019 election having secured, in his words, an ‘excellent’ withdrawal agreement for the UK. If he now undermines this agreement - potentially in favour of a no deal Brexit - his mandate will be built on lies, argues Aaron Bastani.
The Truth Comes Out. a Month Too Late.
The truths revealed in today’s Sunday Times point the finger squarely at Boris Johnson and the government. But if we had a media that tried to hold the government to account when it mattered, Michael Walker argues, it could have saved lives.
Ash Wednesday: Why They Always Lyin’?
There’s another epidemic raging in the UK, concentrated in the highest echelons of government. It’s called lie-abetes.
Novara FM: No Going Back: Defeat, the Far Right, and the Press
James Butler is joined by Owen Jones to take stock as the Left faces 2020.
Opinion: If a Royal Couple Can’t Challenge Britain’s Sick Press, What Hope Does a Progressive Politician Have?
Aaron Bastani
No one expected it to be Harry and Meghan who led the charge against the depraved British press, writes Aaron Bastani, but the way the Duke and Duchess are being treated shows why no one else could do it, and makes a compelling case for media reform.
Long Read: The Centrist Delusion: ‘Middle Ground’ Politics Aren’t Moderate, They’re Dangerous
Raoul Martinez
In every civilisation, the centre ground of political opinion has been home to dangerous, inaccurate and oppressive ideas. The toxic centrism currently pervading Britain and rest of the world requires a rapid, bold, ambitious change of direction, writes Raoul Martinez.
GE2019: Predatory, Poisonous, Vacuous. To Understand Boris Johnson Start With the Spectator
Aaron Bastani
The Spectator, like Johnson, reveals much that is wrong with British politics, argues Aaron Bastani. Elite capture by the billionaire class; the disintegration of any barrier, and thus accountability, between media and politics; the evacuation of any core values beyond opportunism and self-enrichment; a predatory disposition to the public at large.
Opinion: To Be Impartial the BBC Must Change Its Relationship to Britain’s Billionaire-owned Newspapers
Aaron Bastani
As someone born in Britain the BBC is one of the institutions I am most proud of, writes Aaron Bastani, but it could be so much better, offering a genuine counterweight to a billionaire class intent on rigging the country’s democratic process. It won’t do that, and live up to its own charter, until it re-thinks its relationship to the rightwing press.
The Bastani Factor: Billionaires Control the Media
Billionaires control the media, and it’s undermining our democracy. The broadcast media amplify the right-wing print media meaning the political agenda is always set by, you guessed it, billionaires.
GE2019: The Media Is Biased Against Jeremy Corbyn – but Does That Even Matter in This Election?
Bart Cammaerts
As a general election approaches, the biased British press is expected to ramp up its campaign to delegitimise and demonise Jeremy Corbyn, writes professor Bart Cammaerts. But how much power does the press actually have anymore, when social media now allows politicians to speak directly to the electorate?
Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar DESTROYS… Herself?
Recently conservative culture warriors Ben Shapiro and Nigel Farage were both delivered a beating by BBC bulldogs Andrew Neil and Andrew Marr. But are televised debates really the best way to combat the alt right? Or are they kinda dumb?
British Tabloids Amplified Terrorist Propaganda Following Christchurch Attack, Analysis Finds
Charlotte England
Exclusive: Analysis by campaign group estimates the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the Sun may have helped disseminate white supremacist propaganda to more than 1 million people in the aftermath of shootings at two New Zealand mosques.