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Imagine an experienced British surgeon, recently returned from Ukraine, breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately targeting Ukrainian children. Imagine the surgeon had →

In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are trying to avert. Sometimes, notably in the →

Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October: ‘Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank’ This was noteworthy in that, for once, the →

On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were performing in Regent’s Park, London. Six of the bandsmen were killed →

Media Lens is a UK-based media watchdog. It is our response to the increasingly centralised, corporate, state-subservient nature of the mislabelled ‘mainstream’ media system (‘MSM’). We argue that the ‘MSM’, in fact, acts as a →

Last November, we reported on an incisive and courageous email that had been sent on 24 October 2023 to Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director General, by Rami Ruhayem, a Beirut-based BBC correspondent. Basing his arguments →

The BBC’s banner headline reporting the UK’s 4 July general election result was clear: ‘Chris Mason: “Starmer tsunami” and civility after brutality’ This alliterated nicely but gave the misleading impression that there had been a →

Is it possible for an entire ‘mainstream’ media system – every newspaper, website, TV channel – to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing? Consider the following. →

In his very last article, ‘We are Spartacus’, published just a month before his death in December, John Pilger included a quote that exactly captured the truth of our time: ‘“This is a sharp time, →