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Articles by Declan Mcdowell-Naylor
How left-wing media sites have changed their coverage of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer
Left-wing alternative media sites such as The Canary, The Skwawkbox, and Novara Media have spent several years providing intense support for the Labour leadership under Jeremy Corbyn. But our analysis shows how they starkly changed their position now that Keir Starmer has taken over as leader of the party. Back in January Rebecca Long-Bailey was seen as the Corbynite candidate for the leadership.
will it be the alt-left media 'wot won it'?
After the 1992 UK general election, the Sun’s headline famously read: “It’s The Sun Wot Won it”. The claim referred to the paper’s partisan support for the Conservatives during the campaign – including, more crucially, its highly critical coverage of Labour and leader Neil Kinnock – and the perceived impact it had on public opinion, which resulted in a surprise Tory victory.
why the UK's public broadcaster is becoming a big election story
The final week of campaigning for the 2019 UK election began badly for the Conservative Party leader and incumbent prime minister, Boris Johnson. Confronted by an ITV reporter with a picture of four-year-old suspected pneumonia patient Jack Williment-Barr lying on the floor at Leeds General Infirmary, Johnson was so intent on ignoring the image that he took the reporter’s phone and put it in his pocket. The video of him doing so quickly went went viral.
BBC caught in the crossfire: why the UK's public broadcaster is becoming a big election story
Screenshot from Evolve Politics website with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg. Inset, her tweet reporting a story that turned out to be untrue. ITV's political editor posted a similar tweet. Evolve Politics The final week of campaigning for the 2019 UK election began badly for the Conservative Party leader and incumbent prime minister, Boris Johnson.
UK election 2019: how the growing reach of alt-media is shaping the campaign
The UK media landscape features a new source of political coverage. Grouped together under the umbrella term “alt-media”, this new genre of political media is largely (but not exclusively) left-leaning and is a possible response to a mainstream press that largely presents the opposite ideological standpoint. Irrespective of their political alignment, The Canary, Guido Fawkes, The Skwawkbox, Another Angry Voice (AAV) and others are becoming increasingly influential.
Book Review: Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Book Review: Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
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