Huge media coverage has been devoted to allegations, and now serious evidence, that a Christmas party was held at 10 Downing Street on 18 December 2020. London was then in a strict lockdown with social events banned, including parties.



In leaked footage…

If we didn’t have better things to do, it would be a simple matter to produce The Media Lens Book of Obituaries.



The cover might feature grim Death shrouded in tattered newsprint carrying a five-bladed scythe with ‘Ownership’, ‘Advertising’, ‘Sources’…

There has been much gnashing of ‘liberal’ teeth and pulling out of ‘centrist’ hair following the Tory government’s announcement that the BBC licence fee will be abolished in 2027.



Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries declared via Twitter, with a dash of right…

I travelled with my dad – ‘H’, as we called him - in the back seat of the car. It was the same way we’d driven a million times: to Tesco, to drop me off at the station, to drop me off at the airport, to drive up the M25 to my sister’s at Christmas. It was…

‘The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a war of lies and disinformation and omission of history. That kind of war, overwhelming and devastating, waged here in the US while the Gulf War was…

‘The American population was bombarded the way the Iraqi population was bombarded. It was a war against us, a war of lies and disinformation and omission of history. That kind of war, overwhelming and devastating, waged here in the US while the Gulf War was…

A short video introducing our media alert of 4 March, 2022, titled:

'Doubling Down On Double Standards – The Ukraine Propaganda Blitz'

https://www.medialens.org/2022/doubling-down-on-double-standards-the-ukraine-propaganda-blitz/

Video: Keyvan Minoukadeh…

A short video introducing our media alert of 4 March, 2022, titled:

'Doubling Down On Double Standards – The Ukraine Propaganda Blitz'

https://www.medialens.org/2022/doubling-down-on-double-standards-the-ukraine-propaganda-blitz/

Video: Keyvan Minoukadeh…

As the US economist and media analyst Edward Herman rightly noted in the aftermath of the mass slaughter of the first Gulf War:



‘It is the function of defense intellectuals and other experts, and the mainstream media, to normalize the unthinkable for the…

Humanity’s great Achilles' heel, the flaw that may well determine our fate, was summed up in a couple of lines in the classic Simon & Garfunkel song, ‘The Boxer’:



‘Still a man hears what he wants to hear‘And disregards the rest.’



Women, too! Erich Fromm…

In the terrifying opening to his 2020 novel, ‘The Ministry for the Future’, Kim Stanley Robinson depicts an intense heatwave in India. In an ‘ordinary town’ in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, people are struggling to cope with unbearable heat and humidity.…

In 1990, Tom Cruise, star of the 1986 blockbuster, ‘Top Gun’, said:



‘Some people felt that “Top Gun” was a right-wing film to promote the Navy. And a lot of kids loved it. But I want the kids to know that’s not the way war is - that “Top Gun” was just…

Have you ever ambled back from your favourite watering hole, enjoying the peace of the night, only to have your tranquillity trashed by a shrill call of nature that intensifies the closer you come to your destination? Ten minutes from home, peace prevails;…

Last Friday’s decision by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorise the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States is both deeply shameful and unsurprising. Her action paves the way for Assange to be tried under the 1917 Espionage Act, introduced…

Rousseau wrote:



'We have physicists, geometricians, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians and painters in plenty; but no longer have a citizen among us.'



Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists…

Millions of people in the UK are beset by insecurities and worries about the rising cost of living. Fuel and energy prices are escalating, variously blamed on Brexit, Covid, and the war in Ukraine. A recent survey reported that 67% of Britons are worried…

If every single high-profile journalist, politician and priest is currently expressing heartfelt devotion to Britain’s deceased, 96-year-old monarch, it is not because she ‘served' her country diligently in doing her 'duty’ for 70 years. The powerful interests…

Last February, Emily Maitlis left her role as presenter of the BBC’s Newsnight programme to join rival media group Global. In a recent speech, Maitlis made a surprising reference to Theresa May’s former communications director Sir Robbie Gibb:



‘Put this…

The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, 'The Labour Files', and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of ‘democracy’ in the UK.



Based on…

Last week, Alex Nunns, author of ‘The Candidate - Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path To Power’ and former Corbyn speechwriter, described the current assault on democracy within the Labour Party:



‘What’s happening in the Labour Party is new. The Labour right…