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On the eve of the first ballot some of this morning’s front pages
Will the rain dampen Boris’s chances? Mike Smithson Follow @MSmithsonPB Tweet
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The revolution will not be televised
The sleeper topic that will corrode the government’s ratings Save the TV Licence for the over 75's. #BBC pic.twitter.com/50UPYjonJi — HWYEB (@hwyeb) June 12, 2019 Allow me to tell you the most...
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How GE2019 is being treated on the front pages
Here are some of today’s front pages and I don’t think there is anything as memorable as the Daily Mail at the same time in the process in 2017. There is much less Tory triumphalism. Its front page...
View ArticleFree speech, one each. The myth of the oppressed rightwinger and what it...
This is a good thing (from Toby Young's Free Speech Union) pic.twitter.com/OffFpulsB2— Ed West (@edwest) February 24, 2020 Life has hardly been tough for Toby Young. Admitted to Oxford University with...
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Print journalism needs a revolution to avoid a slow death: micro-payments are...
From Sky News But it will only work with industry-wide collaboration When did you last buy a newspaper? I’ve no idea when I did. It was certainly before this year and then will have been the local...
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As we head into August the impact on holidays becomes the big pandemic story
Have ministers panicked? Today’s front pages give a good representation of the main pandemic stories and what the papers think are the issues most likely to impact on their readers. Once again the...
View ArticleAnd now what’s dividing the nation – the Beeb’s decision to play Rule...
At last an issue where there's a huge divide between the parties – How Rule Britannia is performed at the Last Night Of The Proms show. Should there be lyrics or no lyrics? pic.twitter.com/123ndeEuYS—...
View ArticleThis Daily Express WH2020 “poll” is not what it seems
Daily Express readers give their backing to the racist pussy grabberhttps://t.co/G0SLKkOpwJ— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 13, 2020 Like many PBers I am following WH2020 polling very closely at...
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The dangerous first step towards the end of the World Wide Web as we know it
Richard Tyndall on the Australian government move against Facebook So one day, when this terrible virus is finally under some semblance of control, we will be able to go back to the pub. We will be...
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Not a good Daily Mail front page tomorrow for the PM
Increasingly over the past week or so it has been the Mail that appears to have the most negative coverage of Mr. Johnson. Above is the latest for tomorrow’s paper. Of all the papers the Mail is...
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Publish and be Damned?
2 reports into events long ago: 34 and 26 years. The main protagonists are dead. Should anyone care, as the Today programme put it somewhat indelicately, about one murder so very long ago (Daniel...
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