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BBC director-general Tony Hall suggested yesterday that the Morning Star might on rare occasions be featured in TV and radio newspaper reviews.
But he conjured up a new excuse for not mentioning the people’s paper regularly, by pointing out that the Morning Star’s circulation figures are not audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Mr Hall failed to explain why the Morning Star used to appear — intermittently — on the BBC decades ago, even though its circulation was never ABC-audited.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
BERNADETTE KEAVENEY announces a simplified and streamlined way to get your paper delivered daily, and a big push for new readers that we can all help make into a success
JAMES NALTON takes a look at the German league’s move to grow its audience in Britain, and around the future of football on TV in general