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Pushing back against BBC bias
Boris Johnson arrives at BBC studios during the election for a debate with Jeremy Corbyn
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
DECEMBER’S general election laid bare the BBC’s anti-Labour bias. Not a day went by without some kind of thinly veiled attack on the party — from Laura Kuenssberg’s close breach of electoral laws to the smug looks of BBC journalists when the disastrous exit poll came in.
Former university lecturer Richard House watched the public broadcaster’s coverage in horror. Over the election period, he sent complaint after complaint to the BBC, demanding the broadcaster redress its imbalanced reporting. But the academic’s concerns fell on deaf ears.
So House decided to take his campaign one step further — now he is calling for an independent inquiry into the BBC’s coverage of the 2019 general election.
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