Journalists have to do better to improve trust
Online Editor Ben Sixsmith speaks to Fred Skulthorp about his new print piece “The keyboard secret army”, covering online disinformation, the journalists who have been so obsessed with it and how to reverse declining trust in media and politics.
One column ends and another begins
Activism inflames community tensions in Surrey
When will there be consequences?
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
