The Australian social scientist Alex Carey summed up the evolution of political power in the last century as follows: “The twentieth century…

Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the BBC, like the media more generally, has consistently attempted to delegitimise armed opposition…

An Understandable Mistake Readers may recall our alert of May 8, 2006, ‘Lining Up The Next Victims’ (www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060508_lining_up_the.php). We described how the…

In November last year, as many as 24 Iraqi civilians – among them 11 women and children – were killed by US…

Last year we reported that Michael McCarthy, environment editor of the Independent, was ‘taken aback’ at dramatic scientific warnings of ‘major new…

Sean O’Grady wrote recently in the ad-filled motoring supplement of The Independent: “in answer to the many letters we get criticising some…

Front-page headlines greeted the publication last week of the Power Report into the ‘meltdown’ of British democracy. Plummeting participation in elections and…

Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will…

After 4.6 billion years of planetary history, we may become the first species to monitor its own extinction. In impressive detail, humankind…

A Media Lens reader wrote to us recently quoting historian Mark Curtis’s accurate observations that: “Britain is a major, systematic contributor to…