The Rant Mistress

The bemused look on Dave Reeder's face as he poses alongside a permanently preening Paris Hilton epitomises the man. Entirely unim...

In this era of "citizen journalism", insisting on high standards in reporting - demanding pesky things such as accuracy, g...

George Osborne's appointment as editor of the London Evening Standard  while refusing to stand down as a member of parliament i...

Reports emerged around Christmas that Queen Elizabeth II said she was in favour of Brexit but BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg did...

Fidel Castro is dead. And I, for one, will not be shedding a single tear for his passing. As a journalist, I cannot mourn the passing ...

Dear members of staff of The Agenda Beirut, This letter is directed in particular to senior management, for that is where the buck sto...

Come on, David Cameron. Come on . If you're going to kowtow to China and Saudi Arabia, at least have the honesty to admit that it has...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have done the very British equivalent of hanging their heads out the window and yelling at the top of ...

Following on from last week's blog post on the Charlie Hebdo murders, it is clear we still really don't know what to do about a...

There is global anger at the jailing of journalists in Egypt. Three Al Jazeera journalists - an Australian, a Canadian and an Egyptian ...

Yes, yes, I know it's a goddamn dating website and I know that e-harmony was only having a bit of fun with its clickbait article ...

Journalism is a job. Just like any other job, real work is done. It can be tiring, the hours can be anti-social, countless studies have...

So far, this is what we know about a BBC staff being prevented* from working on a balcony at the Conservative Party Conference in Manche...

It's strange to be writing about the Leveson report from Qatar, a country that currently sits at a dismal 114 on the World Press Fre...