How newspaper lies led to Brexit

Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and Liz Hurley are among a group of celebrities suing the Daily Mail publishers, Associated Newspapers, for what they describe as “abhorrent criminal activity”.

Would the Daily Express be a winner in the Dragons' Den?

Richard Desmond, the media mogul, former pornographer and UKIP donor, sold his Brexit-supporting newspapers, the Daily Express and Daily Star, to the Mirror newspaper group in 2018.

In this referendum, don't believe everything

This referendum debate has been debased by some who support Brexit distributing misinformation.

Unfortunately, prominent examples of alleged misreporting can be found in most of the newspapers that back Britain leaving the EU – including The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Telegraph and The Times and The Sunday Times.

Sun's story about Muslims 'seriously misleading' rules press regulator

The Sun newspaper’s front page story claiming that 1-in-5 Muslims had sympathy with ISIS was ‘seriously misleading’.

The press regulator, IPSO, ordered The Sun to publish a retraction on their page two yesterday.  This they did, but The Sun has still not apologised for their inaccurate report.

Are some newspapers stirring up trouble?

According to a controversial front page story by The Sun newspaper this week (duly copied by the Mail Online), a new poll has revealed that nearly one-in-five British Muslims has some sympathy with those who have fled the UK to fight for ISIS in Syria.

The problem with the story is that it's wrong.  Even the organisation that conducted the poll for The Sun, Survation, has had to issue a statement to say that The Sun misinterpreted their survey.  And one of the researchers who helped to conduct the survey has also published an article that The Sun's report was incorrect. 

My 13 complaints against one Daily Mail story

A front-page news story by the Daily Mail in January 2014 that buses and planes to Britain from Romania and Bulgaria were 'full-up and sold-out' was untrue. 

The newspaper asserted that planes and busloads of Romanians and Bulgarians were on their way to Britain in the New Year of 2014 because 'work restrictions' had been lifted.  But with the help of Romanian journalist, Alina Matis, we discovered 13 shocking errors or disputed facts in the story.  

Newspaper lies can cost lives

Heaven help anybody that the media or the government turns against – that’s what I told 'Russia Today' TV last year, but the interview was never broadcast.  Hardly surprising, really, since in Russia the media mostly is the government.  

In Russia, they don’t have a press regulator like we do. But is our system any better?

Campaigning for a free and accountable press

Campaigning journalist, Jon Danzig, with actor, Hugh Grant

On Tuesday night at a private drinks reception in London hosted by the campaign group Hacked Off:  with actor Hugh Grant, who is supporting my complaint against the Daily Mail.