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  • 21 Nov 2010
    The subversive feast of Christ the King

    Today is the Feast of Christ the King. After days of wall-to-wall media coverage about royalty, churches across Britain have today celebrated Jesus Christ as the true king. This is a truly subversive claim.

  • 26 Oct 2010
    Guess the Daily Mail's latest scapegoat

    Scapegoating is central to the Daily Mail. But if you've not yet seen today's issue (26 October), I challenge you to pause for a moment and have a guess at which group of people they are demonising today.

  • 29 Sep 2010
    My sexuality will not be categorised

    The media has been buzzing with reports that the number of gay, lesbian and bisexual people in Britain does not appear to be as high as previously thought. But arguments over the accuracy of the figures suggest that those on both sides are misguided. Categorising people on the basis of their sexual orientation advances neither equality nor our understanding of sexual diversity.

  • 11 Jul 2010
    A field day for the right-wing press

    As the old joke goes, the way to confuse Daily Mail readers is to tell them that asylum-seekers are the natural enemies of homosexuals. This wouldn't have worked last week, when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of two gay asylum-seekers, giving the right-wing media the opportunity to go into full scaremongering mode, firing off prejudiced comments about two groups handily combined into one.

  • 28 Jan 2010
    Anti-Muslim violence linked to negative media portrayals

    New research has drawn a direct link between prejudiced portrayals of Muslims in the media and an increase in anti-Muslim violence. Researchers from the University of Exeter say the press make some feel "licensed to abuse" Muslims.

  • 24 Dec 2009
    Shoplifting and moral choices

    For once, a priest's comments about the severity of poverty in Britain have received the attention of the media, politicians and business leaders. Unfortunately, nearly all of them have missed the point.

  • 13 Dec 2009
    Last stand of the climate change deniers

    In the last few weeks, Britain's few remaining climate change deniers have attempted a last throw of the dice in an effort to derail the Copenhagen climate summit.

  • 3 Dec 2009
    Right-wing activists accused of undermining Copenhagen climate talks

    Right-wing campaigners and journalists reviving denial of human-made climate change are facing strong criticism from scientists, academics and NGOs. They are accused of trying to derail the Copenhagen climate summit.

  • 9 Oct 2009
    The Daily Mail's "Christian values"

    Not for the first time, the Daily Mail has got rather confused about Christian values.

  • 21 Sep 2009
    Tax debates and press priorities

    The Liberal Democrats have called for a small extra tax on very expensive houses and the response has been sadly predictable.