Tabloid Watch

The Scottish Daily Mail has published the following correction and apology , after a complaint from the Scottish Refugee Council: In an a...

One interesting but overlooked section of the Leveson Report has been about the representation of minorities. On the treatment of the tra...

The Scottish Daily Mail has published this PCC-negotiated apology: In December the Mail reported that over £5 million was being spent on...

On 5 August, Richard Littlejohn wrote : From time to time I may have written about both asylum seekers and wheelie bins. But never befor...

Writing for the Independent, freelance journalist Samuel Muston says : The news that two gay asylum seekers fighting deportation have been ...

Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon has written an article for the latest issue of British Journalism Review about media coverage of asylum and im...

Here's the Mail's latest eye-catching anti-immigration headline : And here's the first line of the story: Two Afghan boys who we...

On Monday, the Express had a story about benefits on its front page. Coming less than a week after Judge Trigger made his ill-advised commen...

It's never a good feeling to wander into the newsagents and see that Richard Littlejohn is going to be sharing his ignorant views on imm...

A rotten Sunday Express 'investigation' decides to cash in on the controversy of payments to injured soldiers and write some more cr...

In yesterday's Independent and Financial Times , there were a reports about Eastern European migrants taking jobs and benefits in Brita...

This very blog was mentioned in an article by Gaby Hinsliff, the political editor of the Observer , as an example of a 'new breed of bl...

Two days ago, the UK Border Agency's chief executive, Lin Homer gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee. It was mainly newswo...

In between one mention of 'hell in a handcart' and two of 'elf'n'safety' (I shudder just typing it), Littlejohn once...

The Daily Star have been obsessing over the impending St George's Day, blurring the line between patriotism and racism . Today, three pa...

In an article headlined Hide 'n' seekers , News of the World reporter Kevin Widdop displays typical tabloid ignorance about definiti...