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Israels war on Palestine is not confined to the battlefield. It is also waged in the media, nowhere more prominently than in the New York Times. Long regarded within the industry as a national n...

This article will be released in full online February 21, 2022. Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted…

SIR – The Covid testing regime currently in place causes more trouble to the economy than it’s worth.

PREMIUM Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes early Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 war took on many of the AFTER 54 years of struggle against the illegal occupation of their country, Palestinians have turned a corner. “What is happening in Palestine is not complicated; it’s settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing.” That’s just one of th...

His television plays  Cathy Come Home (1966), and his film Poor Cow (1967), caused national debate about housing provision, social deprivation, and lone motherhood. He has also directed numerous television plays in support of trade unionism, of which The Big Flame (1969), The Rank and File (1971) and  The Price of Coal (1977) are indicative. He also raised the issue of mental health provision and methods in his television play  In Two Minds (1967). In 1990, he risked and subsequently r...

When we politely asked Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson to explain the basis for a cartoon he had drawn on the Syrian conflict, toys flew to all corners of the room: [Media Lens] has succeeded in riling me. Well done. If I’m proved worng [sic] I’ll apologise. Meanwhile, fuck off & annoy someone else… No time for this anymore. Sorry. I stand convicted as a cunt. End of … Journalists with more self-restraint have worked hard to smile through gritted teeth, dismissing our arguments with ...

On Richard Sharp, the BBC and Israel/Palestine Coverage Former GoldmanSachs banker Richard Sharp is the new chairman of the BBC chairman. John Mitchell asks: will Richard Sharp the new Chairman of the BBC pursue ‘impartiality’ in the Israel/Palestine coverage? Richard Sharp the BBC’s newly appointed chairman, begins his incumbency this month against the background of concern over equal pay, the increasing commercial competition from various online streaming companies and brings into focus...

Published date: 18 December 2020 09:18 UTC | Last update: 3 months ago Like Jeremy Corbyn, any British politician who condemns Israels treatment of Palestinians risks being sucked into the vast, toxic sludge surrounding the issue of antisemitism  The day after Labour leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, from membership of the parliamentary Labour Party, the Daily Telegraph published an article headed "Keir Starmer must go fur...