Where have all the flowers gone? Remembering Aberfan.
October 21st 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. At 9.15 am on that day in 1966, just as Pantglas junior school
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Why we are moved by images of children in war….and why that’s not enough
Few images have captured the peculiar horrors of the war in Syria more powerfully than the photograph and short video
Read moreFox News: Out with the old – in with the old familiar.
The resignation yesterday of Roger Ailes, Chairman and Chief Executive of Fox News in the US, sent shock waves through an American
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Why we must study the media
Posted by Dr John Jewell From time to time various Tory politicians, journalists and ill informed misanthropes rise from their
Read moreJournalism and the road to war in 2003. The Daily Mirror stood out.
When, in October 2015, Tony Blair apologised for the use of “wrong” intelligence in the run up to the 2003
Read moreThe Sun, ‘buyer’s remorse’ and perpetual prejudice.
Providing perhaps a little schadenfreude related light relief amidst the seemingly endless EU referendum coverage was the news yesterday that
Read moreHow the UK press woke up to Brexit with that morning-after feeling
Posted by Professor Justin Lewis As Britain – and indeed, the rest of the world – reels from the ramifications
Read moreNo Mars a day in Wales
Last Thursday morning I was invited to contribute to Jason Mohammad’s very popular (and very good) BBC radio Wales programme. The topic
Read moreBBC gets out of the kitchen as government turns up the heat.
I suppose it says a lot about our current national obsession with all matters gastronomic that the focal point of
Read moreThe end of a brand New Day
Yesterday evening various political and media websites began to give credence to rumours that Trinity Mirror was to announce the imminent closure
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