Tag: Russia

This is an original report by Joshua Funnell. It is republished here with the author's permission. All opinions are the ...

Boris Johnson doesn’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to Russia or Nazis

This week, Boris Johnson compared the World Cup in Russia this summer to the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. Here's why ...

Andrew Neil gets put back in his box while trying to mansplain the Russia scare

Andrew Neil came unstuck today as he tried to mansplain the Russia scare to Labour's Anneliese Dodds. After an extraordinary ...

It’s 15 years since the invasion of Iraq. Here’s Jeremy Corbyn predicting the outcome in 2003.

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq; a foreign policy disaster which threw the Middle East into ...

The government just tried (and failed) to discredit inconvenient new evidence in the Russian spy case

by Tracy Keeling

19 March 2018

The UK government recently responded to new claims about the Russian spy story. But its attempt to challenge the veracity ...

We need to talk about how the BBC World Service is describing Jeremy Corbyn to 75 million overseas listeners

The BBC World Service transmits news and views from Britain across the world. But in a segment 'educating' overseas listeners on ...

Andrew Marr and Boris Johnson 18 March BBC

Andrew Marr serves an ace as Boris Johnson flounders over Russian donation

by Stefan Schmid

Boris Johnson has come under fire over Russian donations to the Conservatives. Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show on 18 March, the foreign ...

Viewers are unimpressed by the BBC’s defence of the Corbyn Russian hat scandal

by James Aitchison

The Corbyn Russia BBC hat scandal just won’t go away. Viewers were shocked when BBC's Newsnight featured an image of Jeremy ...

A Conservative MP tweets support for Newsnight’s hatchet job on Corbyn. It didn’t end well.

by Andrea Needham

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has waded into the row about BBC Newsnight's recent hatchet job on Jeremy Corbyn. Journalist Owen ...

Conservative chairman unravels on-air trying to defend his party taking Russian cash

by Chris Jarvis

The Conservative Party has been reeling this week over revelations it received £820,000 from Russian oligarchs since Theresa May became prime ...

Jeremy Corbyn just received support over Russia from the most unlikely source

by Stefan Schmid

As the Russia scandal trundles on, Jeremy Corbyn received support from the most unlikely of sources. Writing in his Mail ...

Despite a week of Tory and media smears, Jeremy Corbyn is still winning

by Fréa Lockley

A week, as they say, is a long time in politics. On 10 March, Labour stormed ahead with a seven-point ...

Owen Jones ‘might not be invited back’ to Newsnight after delivering some home truths about its Russia coverage

by Ed Spencer

Owen Jones ripped into Newsnight on its 17 March programme. The cause of his anger? The programme's hammed-up coverage of Jeremy Corbyn amid ...

Thousands of Dorset residents targeted by biological warfare attacks. But not by the Russians.

by Tom Coburg

17 March 2018

A series of attacks targeted thousands of Dorset residents with biological warfare agents. But the culprits were not Russians. A ...

The most important Russia question asked during last night’s BBC Question Time went unanswered

During last night's BBC Question Time, a member of the audience asked a simple question about Russia. The fact that ...

Listeners are baffled by James O’Brien’s tirade at the British people over Russia

by Tracy Keeling

16 March 2018

LBC host James O'Brien launched a tirade at the British people over Russia on 14 March. But O'Brien's attack on ...

Five bits of bad news Theresa May hoped she could bury under the Russia panic