Julian Petley on the real reasons why the right-wing press are so worried about plans to ensure online platforms prioritise trustworthy news over disinformation

Alarm after Elias Irizarry hired to position in office that manages highly classified military operations

I've just signed my name calling for the government to investigate Brits who have returned from serving in the IDF - you should too!

The Reform leader and his media cheerleaders have cynically exploited the murder of Henry Nowak.

This is what he does. It's who he is

Sign the petition! The ICO is failing us. It's time for a reset. Time and time again, the ICO has failed to protect our data rights. They failed to formally investigate the Ministry of Defence over th...

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division.

The notion of freedom of speech within the law played a key role in this case, and in her judgment Lieven J observed that “there is an immediate question as to what ‘freedom of speech within the la…

In March 2025, the Office for Students (OfS) fined the University of Sussex £585,000, the highest amount ever levied by the regulator. This was largely because after a three-and-a-half-year investi…

Twenty years later, and under a new prime minister, Labour now appears to want to make good on Blair’s promise to ‘change the rules’ as far as human rights are concerned, and to do so for much the …

Every time that threats are made to pull the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), those opposed to such a drastic move remind us that Britain was its first signatory and that W…

Julian Petley writes an open letter to the incoming Director-General of the BBC warning him that the right-wing press wish him nothing but ill

Wes Streeting: trigger the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS. ADD YOUR NAME NOW!

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

What happens when a new party runs into the actual business of local government? Samuel Lovett visits Staffordshire county council, where not everything has gone to plan

As the Brexit-opposed German company Axel Springer SE acquires the EU-hating Telegraph, Julian Petley examines the politics of the man at the centre of the deal, CEO Mathias Döpfner

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Keir Starmer's Government's refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov

What do pronouns, the Met Police and tofu have in common? All three have been accused of being “woke” by senior Tory MPs.

Keir Starmer's Government's refusal to explicitly condemn the Reform leader's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues Adam Bienkov

Alan Lester The Truth About Empire, a collection of essays for a public readership by fourteen leading historians of British colonialism that I edited and introduced, was the subject of Alexander M…