S4E13 Why is no one talking about Sudan? Plus Jess Phillips NHS claim and pub garden smoking ban
Headlines about wars in Ukraine and Gaza have flooded front pages - yet, the "world's biggest humanitarian crisis" is battling for media attention. Why? In Sudan, a terrible war is raging. What star...
5 Sep 202458min
S4E12 Paralympics: An afterthought? Plus ‘two-tiered’ policing and Labour’s migrant ‘amnesty’
The Paralympic Games are underway - and there's plenty to celebrate! More coverage than ever before, a public-participating opening ceremony, and over 160 nations televising the event. But is it eno...
29 Aug 202452min
S4E11 Prisons: Overcrowding, Operation Early Dawn, and child strip-searches
‘UK PRISONS OVERCROWDED AFTER RACIST RIOTS!’ ‘A CHILD IS STRIP-SEARCHED EVERY 14 HOURS’ ‘SCORES OF CRIMINALS COULD BE FREED IN DAYS’ Headlines this week spotlight the UK’s criminal justice system, as...
22 Aug 202457min
S4E10 Just Stop Oil: Why do people hate them so much?
Cult members. Fanatics. Selfish. Evil. All words that have been used to describe climate activists in the mainstream media. Just Stop Oil have made many headlines since 2022, be it by stopping traffi...
15 Aug 202459min
S4E9 Bigotry & bad information: Islamophobia, far-right riots, and Olympic boxing row
This week has seen stories of bigotry, fuelled by bad information. Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant riots sprung up across the UK, with no factual basis in the incident that triggered them - a stabbing...
8 Aug 202451min
Southport stabbings: Why do people join the far-right?
On Monday, three young girls were killed in a knife attack in Southport at a Taylor Swift themed dance class. They were 6, 7, and 9 years old. Eight other children were stabbed. A community, and a c...
1 Aug 202430min
Mina Smallman: Misogynoir, survival, and A Better Tomorrow
Warning: Strong language “Race is always seen as Black men's issue, gender is always seen as white women's issue. So Black women always fall through the cracks.” Preferential acceptance rates for Whi...
11 Jul 202433min
S4E8 General Election, Gen-Z, and propaganda in the papers
It's VOTING DAY! How did you pick who to vote for? Hopefully not by relying too heavily on our mainstream media. Listen to this episode to find out why! It’s a dose of media literacy that is so essent...
4 Jul 202456min
