Tabloid Watch

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...

The appearance of a new Migrationwatch press release is the cause of celebration at certain newspapers, because it means they can produce a ...

The Express' latest not-quite-true front page is this : Who is this 'we' ? Among the very many offensive things the Express has ...

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...

Who knew? Migrationwatch are advertising for a Director of Research . An opportunity to earn £45,000 for emailing press releases to the Mail...

A few short observations on the coverage of the population statistics, looked at in greater length over at 5CC . 1. It was entirely predicta...

Following on from the previous two, the Mail has decided it needed to have a third article about Big Lottery Fund money going to Gypsy proje...

The Mail , Sun , Express , Migrationwatch, the Taxpayer's Alliance and BNP all agree: the prospect of anti-immigrant judge Ian Trigger b...

There were a few oddities about the Migrationwatch poll that appeared yesterday asking people their opinions of a 70 million population, a ...

Here we go again. Migrationwatch has done a poll. It has produced a press release based on the results. It has emailed them to the newspap...

Following on from the Mail and Sun , the BNP has added its view on the news that a limited number failed asylum seekers will be eligible fo...

The Sun has outdone the Mail in scaremongering reporting on the plans to allow some failed asylum seekers access to free NHS treatment. ...

Failed asylum seekers will get free NHS care in U-turn to protect human rights that 'could attract 1m' says the Mail. Notice that n...

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...