Tabloid Watch

Melanie Phillips, 18 November 2012 : fabrications, fantasies and falsehoods take on a life of their own  and can come to represent a sett...

This apology to Rashid Ghannouchi was published yesterday on MailOnline: An earlier version of the blog post "The moderate fanatics...

On Monday 26 September, Melanie Phillips wrote a column in the Daily Mail that appeared under the headline 'Our language is being hijack...

Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday's front page story claimed that the BBC had 'dropped' the abbreviations BC/AD and ordered that B...

Yesterday, an article on the Mail website claimed: The article, by Kate Loveys, stuck closely to a story by Jasper Copping that was posted...

The Spectator has been forced to pay substantial damages and publish the following apology over some false accusations made by Melanie Phill...

At the end of January, an academic research report from the European Muslim Research Centre at the University of Exeter said that media co...

5CC's excellent Did the Government really secretly plot to change the face of Britain? is a thorough dissection of all the nonsense tha...

Melanie Phillips is a great creator of straw men. In her latest column on the Spectator website , she turns her attention to the claims of M...

A report published today by Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer and Dr Robert Lambert MBE, from the European Muslim Research Centre at the University ...

Many thanks to Claude at Hagley Road to Ladywood for highlighting a recent Daily Star article which seemed little more than a recruiting ad...

Last week, while this blog was taking a well-earned break, the Office of National Statistics released the list of the most popular baby name...

The BBC finds itself in the crosshairs of the Daily Mail once again. The whole of page 5 , part of the editorial and a Melanie Phillips op-...

Anton reports that the Royal College of Midwives has called out some BNP propaganda ...which may well have begun life as a Mail story. Fancy...

It's not a tabloid, by an article by Mail columnist Melanie Phillips in the Spectator requires comment as it includes such bizarre inac...

Trevor Kavanagh's latest blather in The Sun doesn't really read much different to the latest from Littlejohn . Or Gaunt . Or Melani...