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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...

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...

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...

This has been published as a response to this month's Progress editorial – Time to stop blaming the media Margaret Beckett, in Labour’s election post-mortem, Learning the lessons from defeat, suggests – unsurprisingly – that the party’s principled support for the...