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BBC Articles

Labour’s vice – hostility to the media

The key talking points that emerged from the Vice news documentary ‘Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider’ perhaps inevitably focused on the attitude towards the media. The headline quotes from the moment the documentary appeared online were about the leadership’s siege...

Nasty tactics in EU referendum race

Some nasty tactics have already appeared in the European Union referendum campaign. One is the way that anti-EU campaigners try to bully or discredit their opponents, rather than discuss the issues. Their response to any message they do not like is to threaten,...

Diversity and the ethnic desert

We need to open the door to real diversity, writes Bonnie Greer Recently I joined Tottenham MP, David Lammy, along with two senior media professionals, in a meeting with representatives of Question Time. We wanted to talk about the flagship political programme’s lack...

The battle against irrelevance

Labour’s travails with the media are more deadly than it thinks ‘People don’t vote for a divided party; we’ve got to learn some lessons about how we handle the media.’ So said John McDonnell during a recent LSE lecture, and frankly amen to that. Five months in, Jeremy...