Tag: media

You’ll Never Walk Alone: Remembering Hillsborough 30 Years On
Today marks the 30-year anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster - a crush during a football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium that killed 96 Liverpool fans. Jess Thorne reflects on the police management, media cover-up and political context of what remains the worst disaster in British sporting history.
Netanyahu’s Electoral Alliance With the Far Right is Frightening, But It’s Nothing Radically New
Back in February, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he was forming an electoral alliance with the nation's foremost fascist party Otzma Yehudit. Douglas Gerrard argues that while this alliance is certainly bleak, there’s much Western journalists discussing these elections are missing.
Don’t Join the Euro, Join the Euro-Shanly Movement

Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly aka “EuroShanly” Labour’s prospective Lexiteer MEP (if needed) chat about Brexit, booting scabs off select committees and the racism of the British press 🚮 thanks and all the best.

I’m Sorry, the BBC Has Now Lost It

From ‘public’ audiences filled with Tory activists to not even attempting to have political balance on panels – and even getting the most basic of facts wrong, Aaron Bastani thinks the jury is clearly out. The BBC has totally lost it when it comes to news and current affairs.
“I’m Having the Time of My Life!” | Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar Meet John McDonnell

John McDonnell MP, the Shadow Chancellor, dropped in to the Novara Media studio at The World Transformed to discuss Marx, flak from the press, and drop hints on the identity of the future governor of the Bank of England.
It’s Time to Call Bullshit on Britain’s News

After a week in which Corbyn was branded a fascist and Theresa May a freedom fighter, Michael Walker digs beneath the bullshit of British news.

Grenfell: One Year On
One year on from the Grenfell Tower fire, James Butler is joined by Dawn Foster and Luke Barratt to discuss the political aftermath of the fire, the progress of the inquiry, and the survivors' struggle for justice.
Sticks and Stones May Break Owen Jones, but Words Will Never Hurt Him
Owen Jones joins Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly on All The Best for a lively discussion on Lycamobile scandal, the Windrush scandal, problems with the media and a general salting sesh.
Interview With Owen Jones

“The main thing I’ve learned from working in the British media is that much of it is a cult. Afflicted by a suffocating groupthink, intolerant of critics, hounds internal dissenters, full of people who made it because of connections and/or personal background rather than merit.” The above tweet from Owen Jones set off an inferno […]

No, but Seriously, Why Has the Media Lost It?
On this episode of TyskySour Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker are joined by BBC Director General in waiting Tom Mills to talk about the crisis in the British media, lying Boris, Skrupal, Jewdas and more.
As Our Government Lies, Britain’s Media Has Given Up On the Truth
Boris Johnson’s apparent lies regarding what he was told about the chemical agent used in the Salisbury attack is the latest in a deluge of misinformation from the British establishment. That they continue to get away with it shows the media has given up on the truth, writes Aaron Bastani.
ATB: Ian Dunt’s Jailhouse Rock
Matt Zarb-Cousin is joined by special guest host Riley Quinn from Trashfuture to talk Ian Dunt’s stint behind bars, Tony Blair hanging around like a bad smell, antisemitism, and blue passports.
Media Meltdown: How the Liberals Lost It

On this episode of TyskySour Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker talk Cambridge Analytica, hatgate and how the collapse of the centre means a media which increasingly fails to understand what the fuck is going on. @MichaelJSWalker @AaronBastani  
So This Time It Probably Was Russia…

It started in the sleepy town of Salisbury, where an ex-Russian spy was poisoned… Join Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani for this latest episode of TyskySour.
Czech M8? Smears, Media & the Left
On #NovaraFM, Richard Seymour joins James Butler and Aaron Bastani to talk about right-wing smear campaigns, the changing shape of the press and the vexed relationship between media and politics.
Fake News, Communist Lobsters and Jordan Peterson

Join Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani as they discuss ‘The Press and the Peterson’ on the newly live streamed TyskySour.
Britain’s Newspapers Are Waging Psychological Warfare Against the Public
Disinformation, ambiguity and unsupported smears like the Corbyn spy claims aren’t features of a healthy media - they’re tactics of psychological warfare waged against the British public.
Fake News and Woke Fees

On this episode of The Fix Live Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the Corbyn Commie Spy conspiracy theories, media hacks (as usual), fake news, bread sauce and the Tories’ tuition fees review.