Many politicians believe government action to arrest climate change is still a vote loser. It is likely to remain so as long as much of the press remains wilfully ignorant of science, writes Peter Wilby.

On Venezuela, when reality points one way, the British press points the other, writes Peter Wilby.

Peter Wilby‘s speech at the conference “The First Casualty? War, Truth and the Media Today”, London School of Economics, November 17, 2007.

Newspapers are altering their business models in a way that will increase their dependence on advertising and other forms of corporate support, writes Peter Wilby.

Peter Wilby on why journalists need to take “dissident” sources seriously when covering war.

The press is always willing, as it was over the capture of the sailors, to criticise a British government for putting its service personnel in harm’s way and for not responding with sufficient resolve when they get into trouble, writes Peter Wilby – but it treats foreigners, particularly Muslims, as always in the wrong.

Narrowing the gap between rich and poor should be Labour’s top priority.

The responsibility we share for Islamic shock and awe.