Government and ‘independent expertise’: think tanks represent a blind spot for critical analysis

Drawing on recent research about UK think tanks, austerity and social policy, Hartwig Pautz and Elke Heins examine the relationship between government and the world of ‘independent expertise’. Focusing on one example, the Centre for Social Justice’s influence over Conservative ministers’ social policies, they …

Truthiness: The Telegraph is guilty of lazy and biased journalism but, as ever, it’s all the fault of the BBC (video)

For the second consecutive Sunday (and several days in between) the Telegraph decided to lead it’s news agenda with what it and the Conservative party have decided is BBC liberal bias.  Claims of liberal bias at the BBC have been …

Right-wing think tank accuses BBC of left-wing bias & The Telegraph publishes the accusation again. So who’s really guilty of “group think”?

So here we are again; it seems that a week cannot pass without one or more of the right wing journals or opinion sheets accusing the BBC of “liberal” or “left-wing” bias. This week it is The Telegraph, in the form of Hayley …