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When a government minister who has pledged to "protect press freedom" is proudly interfering in the BBC's operations, it's a good reminder of why genuine media independence is so essential to democracy.

On this week's News Club: Nandy's war on the BBC & UK Gaza spy ops

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Facts & figures won't end Israel's genocide in Gaza. But the new cfmmuk.org.uk report on BBC anti-Palestine bias is a vital tool for exposing media & political complicity

On this week's News Club we explore media failures on Gaza, Welsh independence & rot in arts industry

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When the 'proper channels' don't work, peaceful protests are quashed & even thinking about action is criminalised, what is left of our civil rights?

On this week’s News Club, we discuss the UK's deepening crackdown on dissent & ask whether socialist media can survive

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❗️ The UK's crisis in media ownership is worse than ever before

📊 Our new 2025 'Who Owns The UK Media?' report details statistics & analysis exposing the media moguls, Big Tech billionaires & unaccountable corporations that dominate the UK media

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Everybody likes to talk about the news, but how can we change it?

Join us & @newsclubuk.bsky.social at the Media Democracy Festival in London this Saturday for their Unfucking The Media workshop, building a toolkit for activists to challenge our broken media

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Nick "I'm sorry" Clegg wants AI agents stealing your work and your voice to fuel the global slopmachine.

On this week’s News Club, we discuss how the weed-like growth of harmful AI applications could tear apart the basic fabric of our social relationships.

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As Israel escalates its bombardment, invasion and forced starvation of Gaza, the UK media desperately scrabbles to avoid reporting the genocide of Palestinians.

On this week's News Club, we look past the Gary Lineker 'scandal' at the growing successes of the BDS movement:

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@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social & @disrightsuk.bsky.social are leading the fight against the government's destructive welfare cuts.

On this week's News Club, we look at Labour's war on the disabled, and we ask - what if the BBC was actually owned & controlled by the public?

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Will Labour's local election humiliation lead them to desperately DOGE-ify DCMS? And who would even care?

On this week's News Club, we look at what Trump's attacks on public media could mean for the UK, and how the left can make its own populist politics.

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While Gordon Brown is trying to take down corporate media power, Tony Blair is laundering corporate spin for fossil fuel companies.

On this week's News Club: why tech platforms like Google should be run as a global commons & lessons from the two ex-PMs' latest interventions

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The unjustified, unanswered banning of @leicester.news.web.brid.gy's local news group by Facebook is a dangerous attack on independent journalism & online freedoms.

The UK must act to break up the dangerous and undemocratic power of Big Tech companies like Meta.

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The Supreme Court has emboldened trans discrimination and exclusion, but also strengthened LGBTQ+ solidarity.

On this week's News Club we look at the warped anti-trans ruling, and the BBC's weak attempt to prove its worth ahead of the government's Royal Charter review.

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Digital platforms profit by exploiting our differences & spreading hatred: can we build something different?

Join @avasantina.bsky.social, @adelewalton.bsky.social, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social & @natacha.bsky.social on 31 May to discuss this & more #MDF25

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There's shits in the rivers & shits on the company boards. Could a mass bill boycott finally break the UK's failed private water experiment?

On this week's News Club, we look at taking back control of our water, overcoming the 'media blitzkrieg' & anti-worker reporting on the Birmingham bin strikes