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  • 8 Apr 2013
    The Daily Mail want me to feel insulted. I don't.

    According to theDaily Mail today (8 April), I should be feeling insulted. "What an insult to Christians!" declares its front page.

  • 6 Jun 2012
    Daily Mail criticises Rowan Williams' Diamond Jubilee sermon

    The Daily Mail has criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury for comments on "ludicrous financial greed" and "environmental recklessness" in his Diamond Jubilee sermon.

  • 16 Jan 2012
    A fresh propaganda offensive against disabled rights

    With the government still apparently willing to make sick, disabled and vulnerable people pay for a financial slump brought about by greed, de-regulation and speculation, the press-mediated propaganda assault has begun ahead of the next House of Lords debate on welfare reform (17 January).

  • 27 Sep 2011
    The reality of BAE's job cuts

    I don’t claim to be an expert at making political predictions. Some of my predictions have been woefully off-course. But yesterday (26 September) I made what must surely be the most precise political prediction of my life.

  • 12 Aug 2011
    Rich thugs, poor thugs

    Right-wing columnists are having a field day in the wake of the riots, demonising single parents, benefit recipients and working class people generally. To be consistent in condemning looting, we should criticise not only the rioters but the wealthy bankers and politicians who are looting our society.

  • 27 Jul 2011
    Benefit claimants and top-rate taxpayers

    A glance at the front pages of this morning's papers gives a brief snapshot of the grotesque reality of ConDem Britain. The Daily Mail and Daily Express lead with vicious and misleading attacks on disabled benefit claimants, while the Daily Telegraph reports on Boris Johnson's call for very wealthy people to pay less tax.

    Welcome to the UK under David Cameron, where the poorest are blamed for the nation's problems while the richest are portrayed as victims.

  • 10 Jun 2011
    Daily Mail tries to launch a 'holy war'

    In a frankly inept example of a newspaper with a huge axe to grind engineering the story it then reports, the Daily Mail yesterday (9 June 2011) attempted to create a 'holy war' between the leaders of England's Anglican and Catholic communities over David Cameron's 'Big Society' - presumably with the aim of defending the latter.

  • 18 Mar 2011
    Making Christianity a crime?

    The issue of Christians with anti-homosexual beliefs fostering children continues to inspire hysterical coverage in the right-wing press, despite widespread rebuttals.

  • 18 Feb 2011
    Rumour and speculation over civil partnerships

    It was reported this week that the government is to allow religious elements in same-sex civil partnership ceremonies. If this news sounds familiar, it is because we've already heard it.

  • 7 Dec 2010
    Pagan prisoners and press prejudices

    The Metro's news room yesterday must have echoed to the sound of the bottom of barrels being scraped, as the paper chose to put a story about the rights of Pagan prisoners on today's front page (7 December).