Liz Gerard
10 July 2024
Our disgracious press
The Tory-supporting papers' reaction to the party's crushing defeat shows they have learned absolutely nothing
Read the full article04 July 2024
The Tory press in denial
This has been a campaign devoid of excitement and imagination - in the national papers as well as from our politicians
Read the full article03 July 2024
The Sun humiliates itself by endorsing Labour
The paper hates Keir Starmer, but couldn’t bear not to back a winner
Read the full article03 July 2024
The hunt for Mrs Starmer
For good reason – and much to the frustration of the tabloids – the Labour leader’s wife has done a great job of avoiding the spotlight
Read the full article27 June 2024
How the Daily Mail wrecked the Tory Party
A former editor says the paper’s unquestioning support allowed the Conservatives to lose perspective
Read the full article26 June 2024
The Tories have taken a flutter into the gutter
Betgate could join Partygate as a defining scandal of the Tories’ 14 years in power – even if Tory papers were reluctant to touch the story
Read the full article19 June 2024
Farage and the oxygen of publicity
He’s everywhere – and the Brexit press reckons he’s heading for Downing Street
Read the full article17 June 2024
The Mail is the new Project Fear
As the polls continue to point to a heavy Conservative defeat, the Daily Mail’s analysis of Labour is getting hysterical
Read the full article12 June 2024
The press, the manifestos and the end of scrutiny
The papers aren’t bystanders any more – they’re political participants
Read the full article07 June 2024
Sunak and a monumental gesture of disrespect
The D-day farce said it all about Rishi Sunak – but also about the papers that have slavishly supported him
Read the full article04 June 2024
Farage and the right wing press
They love him — but what happens if he destroys the Tory party?
Read the full article31 May 2024
It’s election season on Fleet Street
The Diane Abbott controversy, attacking Angela Rayner and… a podcast about Lord Lucan?
Read the full article28 May 2024
The Mail is not wavering but frowning at Sunak
What the right wing papers think about Raynergate, the triple lock plus and private schools
Read the full article25 May 2024
The end of Rwanda
Rishi Sunak’s admission that no failed asylum seekers will be flown to Africa before the election concludes a senseless, costly shambles
Read the full article22 May 2024
The right wing press hates you
You might not know it, but you ruined the country. Obviously nothing to do with the Conservative government
Read the full article10 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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