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Jack Coulson: Exploring the 21st-century battlegrounds for free speech
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (1032+ words) Jack Coulson is Head of Advocacy at Big Brother Watch. A ‘fortuitous’ leadership election timetable saved Andy Burnham from facing Parliament back in July, but five heatwaves and one inane emergency alert later, we are soon to see the new…...
Lord Ashcroft: Is political news biased? Does social media make things better or worse? And what should leaders say about it?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (394+ words) Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is an international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. For more information on his work, visit lordashcroft.com How does the media influence British politics? Many believe the relationship is negative, even toxic – but how do different…...
Annabelle Sanderson: South West women have a Liberal Democrat problem
1+ week, 3+ day ago (851+ words) Annabelle Sanderson, is Deputy Political Chair of her local Conservative branch and was a 2025 Conservative candidate in the 2025 local elections. She previously served as UKIP’s Head of Media. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling on the 16th April 2025, publicly funded institutions across…...
Hating the media the media can live with - attempts to gag them are madness
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1112+ words) “Have you heard of Jolyon Maugham?” This was the unexpected question in an unexpected phone call I received just after Christmas in 2019 from an old friend. Sadly, I had. The friend was a legal colleague of Maugham’s and he and his…...
The difference between scrutiny and smear is not defined by political affiliation
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1149+ words) The death of Jason Arday is – whatever you think of him, what he did or did not do, whatever your politics are, and most of all for his family, his child – a tragedy. There have been reams already written not…...