Liz Gerard
10 April 2024
The twisted morality of the Daily Mail
The paper’s attacks on Angela Rayner are yet another example of its rank hypocrisy
Read the full article28 February 2024
The Tories broke Britain. But the right wing press still blame Labour
The right wing media has finally woken up to the fact that nothing in Britain works. Now they can’t wait to pin it all on Starmer
Read the full article31 January 2024
Project Smear Starmer
The right wing press is stepping up its attacks on Labour’s leader as the general election nears. But what happens if he wins?
Read the full article09 January 2024
How Fleet Street missed the Post Office scandal
Our national newspapers’ lack of interest in a multiple miscarriage of justice raises disturbing questions
Read the full article13 December 2023
Britain’s dirty media and the threat to press freedom
Riddled with foreign ownership, a number of Britain’s biggest newspapers have developed some very telling blind spots
Read the full article29 November 2023
The Tory media’s Covid inquiry cowardice
How the ‘fearless’ Tory press meekly ducked criticism of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak over Covid
Read the full article12 July 2023
How the Tory press held Britain to ransom
The UK’s right-leaning newspapers are less influential than ever, and most will always loathe Labour. So why is Keir Starmer trying to court them?
Read the full article21 June 2023
The gutter Express, the paper that brought us Brexit
The scale of the disaster it helped to create is becoming clearer, but this cheerleading newspaper remains upbeat
Read the full article13 April 2023
Daily Hate: The Mail’s century-long quest to demonise migrants
It is arguably Britain’s most influential paper – which makes its long and ongoing history of vilifying refugees and asylum seekers even more troubling
Read the full article11 February 2023
Not even her Daily Mail fanboys believe in a Liz Truss comeback
The paper which once hailed her disastrous economics has abandoned the former PM for good
Read the full article13 December 2022
Is the New York Times distorting Britain?
It paints a picture of post-Brexit life that Michael Gove and others don’t like. But what if America’s leading newspaper is right?
Read the full article05 May 2022
Mail order hypocrisy
As the government totters, its rabid lapdog is going all-out on attacking Labour
Read the full article03 April 2022
What's the future for Channel 4?
The broadcaster’s privatisation is again on the agenda as politics trumps reason
Read the full article24 January 2022
Fan Mail: Why is Paul Dacre’s paper so keen to prop up Boris Johnson?
A weakened PM must now follow their agenda on the BBC, immigration and Covid
Read the full article26 November 2021
The government will never solve the migrant boat crisis by bowing to a baying press
In the wake of the tragedy in the Channel, media commentator LIZ GERARD’s searing essay exposes how newspapers demonised refugees - and encouraged ministers to follow them.
Read the full article04 November 2021
How Brexit became a disaster everywhere apart from in the eyes of the British newspapers
As crises mount, the polls show voters turning at last. But the national newspapers that backed Leave – even the two now edited by Remainers – continue to pretend there is nothing wrong.
Read the full article10 August 2021
Innumerate Britain: Our inability to understand big numbers is a national disaster
Did the Brexit vote swing on a basic misunderstanding of public finances? Did people die of Covid because our politicians are innumerate? LIZ GERARD explores Britain’s hopelessness in the face of big numbers
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12 June 2021
Is the Sun setting on Murdoch's global media empire?
The Sun's days could be numbered, writes LIZ GERARD.
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11 April 2021
Why are there so few BAME faces on the fronts of our newspapers?
21 February 2021
Can the leopards of Fleet Street ever really change their spots?
