The UK competes as itself too rarely to allow the Corporation’s complacency to let Britain down. Time to bring some Olympic focus.
The new channel’s critics don’t understand the difference between impartiality, which is required, and bias, which is not.
The UK needs stronger national institutions, whether that be Great British Railways or the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Plus: Batley & Spen is no Hartlepool. LibDems eye Chesham & Amersham. And: will the West Ham variant hit Europe?
“It was not about the lobby,” says a friend of Vote Leave. “It was about getting a message out to voters beyond the M25.”
The idea of this dishonest campaigning is clearly to fool people into thinking they are reading dispassionate journalistic reports.
Plus: Piers Morgan wasn’t ‘cancelled’. And: We need a conversation on women’s safety.
Does this sentence say more about a) Dominic Cummings? b) Carrie Symonds? c) The media? d) The dog?
One of our best selling papers recently ran a piece promoting the views of an “NHS worker” who claimed hospitals were “empty” and Covid was a “hoax”.
Plus: Biden won fair and square, Trump’s allegations of fraud have been dismissed by the courts – and one can be a conservative and say so.
The fifth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
Our columnist took issue with Lockdown Sceptics in his article yesterday. The Editor of that site replies.