Italian government blames media reports after S&P???s credit rating cut

Greek media reports that Greek government accepts possibility of debt restructuring

Recession looms, unemployment touches a 17-year high. But 101 Tory MPs want David Cameron to shackle the UK’s wind industry, which now employs over 10,000 people. Their call will feed the predominant anti-renewables line in some media.

He's one of the most powerful men in the western world with his Bond-villain like dominance of the media, and he hobnobs with the visible and invisible power brokers on several continents. So what is it that Rupert Murdoch knows which inspired this chilling tweet earlier today? @rupertmurdoch Rupert Murdoch Economic matters interesting, but shouldn't we be preparing for likely Israeli hit on Iran ...

I’ve been busy with the media yesterday and today giving my take on Chris Huhne’s resignation, so here are the two main highlights if you missed them: The Lib Dem Voice survey results I mention are covered in the piece Which four Liberal Democrat ministers have most improved their standings in 2011? and for more

It has become a media consensus that turning a school into an academy will automatically turn it into a more successful school, improve its results. But a closer look at the figures, which the mainstream media has conspicuously failed to carry out, shows a very different story.

In the New York Times, Michael D Shear reports that the influence of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party has waned during the US Republican Presidential primaries: In October, Sarah Palin announced that she would not run for president in 2012, ending the media frenzy around her potential candidacy even as she vowed to remain

Democracy is an overused word these days. That, in itself, would not be a bad thing if it were being used correctly, but the trouble is that it rarely is. There is a growing assumption - perpetuated by the mass media - that democracy is simply the will of a large group of people expressed in some collective form or another. This is a simplistic and inaccurate view and one which I most definitely d...

Today’s leaked NATO report on ‘the state of the Taliban’ has generated the predictable responses: excessive attempts by the media to hype it up, and excessive attempts by NATO and the Pakistani government to play it down. What is its true significance? It’s a good scoop, but there is little or nothing in it which really counts as ‘news’ to anyone who has been fo...

Social networks can act as a catalyst to help direct democracy prevail over current economic and political monopolies, writes Viktor Tkachuk from the "People First" organisation in Ukraine. More »