Sitemap - 2020 - Conquest of the Useless
Hipster analysis with Ayesha Hazarika: Politics is a game to pundits who never have to take the pain
The BBC’s Celebrity: A 21st-Century Story is really the continuing tale of tabloid exploitation
Dumb, dumb, dumb it's the sound of Dan Hodges’ gun
Trust in the media enters Tier 4: Newspapers played a big role in the ‘cancelled’ Christmas
Sucking up to the super-rich: The Times' Iain Martin doesn't love charity, he just hates taxes
Future passive: BBC News' "balance" is so demented that it keeps falling on its face
Tom Cruise is a religious extremist and The Sun is swallowing Scientology’s spin
Racism is LBC's not-so-secret ingredient and it's no surprise that Sir Keir Starmer swallowed it
The hate of the 'hip' gunslinger: Julie Burchill's islamophobia is nothing new
Cock and total balls! Mary Whitehouse still lives in British newspapers
Not even a little respect: The Times is a racist endeavour and it keeps getting away with it
The Eton 'scandal': Columnists desperately defend the right to be a tendentious prick
The Moon Over Bullshit: How a column about pubs explains the British media's disconnection
Pure nonce sense: Much of the British media is lucky it's not on a register...
Laurence Fox set up a BBC reporter for abuse and BBC News should take action but it won't.
'Journalism isn't a profession, it's a trade!" Why journalists love this excuse about our 'craft'.
Rupert Murdoch's under fire in Australia but chicken shit British politicians won't take him on
“Hey! Remember Unions?!” The media is addicted to junk history.
Priti Patel is a bully. She should become a journalist, she’d fit right in.
'Darren Grimes: Political Commentator': Just because an alleycat is loud doesn't mean it's a lion
A golden dawn for bullsh*t: The BBC let The Spectator's Fraser Nelson gaslight its audience
The circling wagons: How the media helps its pals and hurls shite at its ‘enemies’
“And then Boris said...” Westminster reporters are just gossip merchants with pretensions.
An exotic display for the court: Making sense of the Marina Hyde fandom
Oliver Dowden, the Culture Secretary is a barely useful idiot and he is trying to destroy the BBC
Cash for conspiracies: talkRADIO has learned from the Infowars playbook
It's 25 years since 'Common People' and the broadsheet newspapers are *still* playing at being poor
Columnists are delighted that politics will be boring again? Trump was just a game to them.
I'm glad Owen Jones is starting his own thing. A lot of us have been at this for a while now...
Bannon’s in the basement mixing up bad medicine, I’m on the pavement angry about CNN...
Too close to call... but the media result is clear: It’s a hold for the rubes.
The Sun doesn’t care about justice, it cares about gossip and winning
Another lockdown? But that’s ‘unpossible’, say the supine British newspapers
I’m delighted that the BBC demands staff don’t “virtue signal” — they can now cancel Comic Relief
No, Woolworths isn’t returning and neither is a healthy UK press
The crucifixion of Frank Bough, or Why tabloid hacks never ever take cocaine or cheat...
IPSO? F*ck no! The UK's biggest press regulator is so toothless it needs its food mashed up
A Times columnist, the decline in deference, and why he can go f*ck himself
You will also go on the list: Why the British press is obsessed with World War II
Here are my biases: I hate liars, charlatans and w*nkers.
By gaslight glow, Tom Newton Dunn and Laura Kuenssberg convince themselves they’re the goodies...
"Hurrah for the Black Sharts..." Why I'm taking Laurence Fox's resistible rise seriously
The British media is a drug and every day is a bad trip
George Osborne: New BBC Chairman? Sure! Now appoint Dick Dastardly to run the traffic cops
Columnist? Government computer says, ‘Retrain as a foreman in the dog whistle factory...’
Brown source: Why British political journalists are so full of sh*t about government briefings
Ladies and gentlemen, he’s floating in disgrace: The secret of Toby Young’s decades long grift
Careers advice for school bullies: Get a newspaper column and do talk radio
At the chart of all the corruption: The Conservative Party/Spiked coalition explained
"I wanted to die, so buy my book!" The media needs to stop using mental health as marketing
Who breaks a shithead upon a wheel? In extremely reluctant defence of Darren Grimes
One long subtweet: My nemesis in journalism not named but certainly shamed
It’s not a ‘glitch’: Journalism’s euphemism addiction will never end
Mosley with a stylist: The resistible rise of Laurence Fox
What the British media has in common with Bernie Madoff
F*ck civility: Politeness is a cosh and in the media, it's a prison
How to fail in the media and how I’ve failed...
Heavy manners and transparent threats: How lawyers try to stifle journalism
The Rorschach of Boris Johnson: How the British media paints a bizarro-version of the Prime Minister
What is journalism? A thing with feathers, gills and a c*ck that f*cks reality...
Bring me the head of Roberto Peston: Client journalism is destroying what’s left of democracy
Simon Heffer is Beaker or Why most right-wing columnists had youths as left-wing firebrands
Gogglebox is better at Westminster analysis than every political journalist in Britain.
Journalism is poorer without Sir Harry Evans and Parliament is poorer without Dennis Skinner
"I'm sending for Germaine Greer..." The death of the public media feud reveals how broken things are
Journalists on safari: The North is a foreign country, they do things differently there
Kay Burley’s plea for Matt Hancock shows one thing — the UK media is far too cosy
The resurrection of Johann Hari proves that 'cancellation' is bullsh*t
The right-wing outrage machine: From Grimes to Guido to getting in the papers to BBC News...
BBC wage rows are a right-wing distraction. Stop falling for it.
F*ck it off: 'Civility' will not change politics or the media
The sins of the father, the emails of the daughter and the future of Woman's Hour...
You can't fool me, Janice: The British press' biggest bullies love to pretend they're the victims
Why I became a journalist aka I really wanted to be in Press Gang
But seriously... 13 things I'd do if I had the tits to be Boris Johnson's new press spokesperson
Hot source: How journalists should handle sources and how some actually do...
I was a twenty-something f*ckwit: Continuing confessions of a former comment drone
The UK does not have a free press but people working for it can never admit that
Bad Apple: Tim Davie is the BBC’s John Sculley. It will need a Steve Jobs when he’s done.
A fascist in a hurry: The continuing horror of Douglas Murray
Di On A Rope: The press and princess propaganda
Agent Matt Chorley in... The Catastrophic Corbyn Conundrum
What will the British Fox News look like? Nigel Farage smirking in your face forever
Weekend digest: Bad things from The Sunday Times + 5 good articles to make it better
Andrew Sullivan: The 'polite' fascist is a fascist nonetheless.
Fast fingers and a bigmouth: The journalistic confessions of a man who can't do anything else
The books behind Boris Johnson and the UK's media bullsh*t obsession with symbols
The undead James O'Brien or Why shame is not a profitable quality in the UK media
Land of dopes and culture warring: Is Dan Wootton the world's biggest Land of Hope & Glory fan?
Oat in the cold: How The Sunday Times published political anti-fan fiction about Jeremy Corbyn
Botox and bullsh*t: Two columnists and one kind of contempt for you — the reader
"What about personal responsibility?" BBC News, the devil's advocate, and a question beyond contempt
Eating the Dead Cat: Effective media analysis ignores the distractions and focuses on the power
Orwell and not good: By George! Most of the British media has only read two Orwell novels...
Single shite Mail: Keir Starmer’s ❤️ affair with the Daily Mail
In the air, he's sh*te: The Times and the defenestration of Philip Collins
To the class of 2020... don’t buy The Sun, scream
Oxbridge w*nkers have ruined the media like they ruin everything else
Jake Paul and India Knight: Two faces of modern media's ugly decadence
Too soon: Sumner Redstone was a complete bastard
Cluck cluck squawk! The future of media should be independents but it'll actually be chickenization
Twilight of the gods: Former-NME editor Conor McNicholas on a bygone rock era
Sink the BBC boat: Breakfast chasing migrants was fascist TV
If Niall Ferguson’s TikTok column was a person, it would be certifiable
Eugenics if you want to: Columnists think they can question anyone's right to live
Dead wronged: When the media ignores the rules on reporting about suicide
The BBC fell into a Tory trap and the newspapers are happy to see it squirm
If BBC News reported on Rupert Murdoch’s companies like they report on it
Time out for Tony Elliott: Why new magazines are still possible but old bastards ruin it.
The Prince and the Paedo: Royal correspondent is the most pathetic job in British media
"I can do this all day." Why I won't be threatened by presenters from TalkRadio aka School Bully FM
How to get head in the advertising industry: An insider spills McDonald's secrets and more
Boom time for the grievance artists: The media’s liars are drowning in loot
Me? I'm Mr Clean: Why James Murdoch can never really wash his hands of News Corp
Everybody be cool, this is a snobbery: Why Graydon Carter was and is the most dangerous man in media
The Fraser Nelson strategy: How to help the far right while sounding 'just' right...
Meghan Markle and media misogynoir: How the UK media perpetuates colonial narratives
Don't look at the man behind the curtain: Why think-tanks don't want you to think very much...
Who breaks a buttered fry on a wheel? Annunziata Rees-Mogg and the politics of bullsh*t
Wiley guy? Nope, he's an antisemite...
BONUS: The silly mystery of Eaves Wilder
The weird history of the cow site: Why Unherd shouldn't be seen as 'respectable'.
Long time coming: Camilla Long vs. Twitter
Boring bastards won't beat Dominic Cummings
Caitlin Moran: The making of a myth
Imagine: Trump loses but won’t leave...
The Moral Maze should be dismantled and its minotaurs put out to pasture
British media and press nepotism: The hereditary principle for hacks is a disease
Conspiracy theories that the UK media accepts
GNU to Q: When a great magazine dies
The Dimbleby dynasty: This is what feudalism looks like
Blocked by Spiked: My challenge to cowardly pub bore Brendan O’Neill
The Truman Show has been a lockdown hit because modern media means we are all living it
I hate The Beatles: The problem with smart arses and 'cool guys'/'cool girls' in the media
Weak for the weeklies: Columnists and their fans
Do you know Larry Flynt? Laurence Fox is not a free speech martyr
Bonus issue: Media bloodbaths and why we hacks shouldn't beg for sympathy
The Rise of the Murdochs is a crime drama: Anatomy of an evil empire.
Ex-NYT opinion writer Bari Weiss is a martyr to her own bullsh*t
In Denial: Genocide denial, why Spiked shouldn't exist and why Jacobin cannot stand
Analysing the forehead: What does Brendan O'Neill actually say he believes...
“Do as I say, don’t look at what I do...’ Britain’s columnist kleptocracy
If we reported on the United States like we do other unstable countries
Jada brings herself to the table. Will brings the support. And the press brings the judgement.
The podfather and pandemic politics: A conversation with futurist Ben Hammersley (Part 1)
They shoot Ewoks, don't they? David Aaronovitch calls for regime change on Endor
KanYeah or KanNay? Will Kanye West ever be President? (with Joe Twyman of Deltapoll)
Who is new Today Programme editor Owenna Griffiths and will BBC Radio 4 let her fix the show?
That Harper's letter on free speech annotated
The Burning Bridges letters: Dylan Jones makes my teeth ache
The Chancellor and the mugs (in the Lobby)
Guido Fawkes is like a media protection racket...
Polite and patronising: The weapons of the British shock jock. Just ask James O'Brien
Why Tony Blair's forever war on Media Studies is still important
Bad Bad Bad Bad Barbara Ellen: The Bad Take Machine S**** The Bed Over Ghislaine Maxwell
The rising of a dark star: Why Boris Johnson’s new TV spokesperson will be a dangerous character
Who is Darren Grimes? Not even he knows
Sex sells! Or why British journalists are prudes in print and pervs in pubs
Bonus issue: Death of the disco dancers -- How music magazines were killed by b*******
The BBC is too polite by design and Piers Morgan is right to pick a fight
They walk among us: the abusers and harassers in the media and journalism
Sign O The Times Radio: Breakfast show review
Masters of deception: What happens when journalists plagiarise and lie
Shane Dawson, blackface, and why YouTube reporters are whack
How to write a column about the ‘woke’ ‘intolerant left’
On the matter of pseudonymity and anonymity: A brief update with Slate Star Codex's Scott Alexander
Keir & Loathing: The sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey and The Independent's idiocy
The Bad Attitude Era: Why the UK political media is like professional wrestling
The cosiness conspiracy: How the British media makes awful people into national treasures
Love on the doxx: SlateStarCodex and the right to be anonymous
The troll pipeline: How ‘mainstream’ UK media figures use anonymous right-wing sources
I have a child! Of course, I should be Education Secretary
The biggest privilege that columnists have? The right to get away with being stupid
The shit? You eat it: Why you -- the reader -- should take some blame for bad journalism