Sky News is running a full investigation into why right-of-centre X accounts get more views than left-wing ones. Usually happens when the newsroom runs out of ideas…
The package, out this morning on the channel, includes the classic “we made an anonymous X account and saw lots of right-wing content” caper. Most of which is based off the fact that Rupert Lowe’s posts are more popular than Keir Starmer’s…
Eventually Sky News realises that content does especially well if it is reposted by Elon Musk, who has 228.6 million followers. Their conclusion is: “It is Musk who decides what’s really free”…
Tellingly the story runs quotes from Ned Mendez, “a data analyst at digital consultancy firm 411, who Sky News worked closely with to conduct this analysis.” 411 is a consultancy made up of former Labour campaign staffers. It was founded after the election and is named after the number of seats Labour won. The Sky report does not mention this. The Telegraph reported last month that 411 “allegedly approached journalists offering to pay them £50 per week to post “progressive” videos online on themes such as “Nigel Farage does not stand for the working class.” The Labour Party has refused to say whether it is funding the videos…
That means Sky News is running Labour propaganda. Some things never change…
An all-time howler from Sky News. Has Peter O’Hanrahan joined the news desk?
Robert Jenrick has had a furious row with Sky News this morning after he was accused of enabling the ‘far-right’ by raising his concerns over integration in communities like Birmingham. Concerns attacked by the Guardian last night…
Presenter Kamali Melbourne accused Jenrick of singling people out for the colour of their skin to which he snapped back, insisting “we want people to be living in mixed communtities, don’t we.” Melbourne eventually went further:
“That kind of language does give support for people on the far-right who don’t want to see brown and black people.”
Jenrick hit back and insisted that journalists were responsible for attacking “fair and reasonable comments to try and shut down a debate that this country needs to have… every time people try and raise their fair and reasonable concerns journalists like you pop up and try to knock those people down.” Punchy…
A damning new poll from YouGov and Sky News reveals that 50% of Tory members think Kemi Badenoch should not lead the party into the next general election. In a direct face-off against Robert Jenrick, 39% say they’d back Badenoch as leader compared to Jenrick’s 46%…
In more positive news for the Tory leader 70% see her in a positive light and 61% believing she’s doing a good job.
Just 14% think the Tories will win a majority at the next election. A whopping 2:1 margin would, however, support a pact with Reform. Tory Conference goes on until Wednesday…
Sky News’s ‘fact-check’ of Nigel Farage’s claims on Afghan sexual offence conviction rates has just been blown apart by the Metropolitan Police, who have admitted to offering “incorrect” guidance on the data used in Sky’s article. They say it was a “simple human error”…
Last week Sky said Afghans were three times more likely than UK-born individuals to be convicted of a sexual crime, disputing Farage’s “22 times” claim. In their fact check, they compared police conviction data with 2021 census ‘country of birth’ figures, arguing this was the recommendation of both the Home Office and the Met. Unfortunately the Met has now fessed up:
“This data was extracted from NPSIS, a national system which records custody information, and Connect, a Met system which records information about crimes, cases and individuals.
A media outlet asked how nationality is defined by police. Our media team advised we couldn’t assist with definitions on NPSIS, but for Connect we guided there was a dropdown for country of birth so likely the source of the FOIA data and the most appropriate to use, while we continued enquiries to provide a fuller definition to the reporter. This also followed information from the reporter that they had obtained guidance from the Office for National Statistics that census ‘country of birth’ data would be the most appropriate to use.
We are now aware that the data for the FOIA request was taken from a ‘nationality’ drop down menu on Connect and therefore the guidance was incorrect.”
Sky attacked Reform’s figures for comparing nationality-based crime data with country-of-birth population estimates… yet their own calculation did exactly that. Guido is happy to fact check the fact checkers…
UPDATE: Sky News have issued a correction:
“A previous version of this story stated that the Met Police, like the ONS, had advised using “country of birth” figures from the census as the best measure to use when calculating population size, because the data they provided to the CMC also used that variable.
Since publication, they have told us that that guidance was incorrect, due to “simple human error”, and that the data they provided to the CMC listed the “nationality” of the accused. The article has been updated to reflect that”
Sky News Breakfast political correspondent Mhari Aurora is rowing with Nigel Farage this morning after a testy exchange at the Reform leader’s crime conference yesterday. Sky not coming out looking rosy…
After Aurora accused Farage of ‘project fear’ over rising crime he responded at the conference: “They are afraid. I dare you to walk through the West End of London after 9 o’clock wearing jewelry – you wouldn’t do it. And that’s just London.” She responded with an ‘analysis‘ piece for Sky with her “response” which said:
“I am not afraid to walk in the West End of London after 9pm wearing jewellery. I have done it many times before and will continue to do so… but perhaps that is because I do not own a Rolex.”
The piece bizarrely continued:
“Snatch theft does worry me, hence why I now have a phone case with a strap attached to it that I can put around my body. And I worry about knife crime in my area and what the impact could be if I were to have children – on the weekend someone was stabbed to death a stone’s throw from my house…However, if we look at the statistics, it is invariably a more nuanced picture than Farage or social media might have us believe.”
Farage pointed out this morning: “The same journalist who accused me of ‘stoking fear’ over crime also admits to wearing a phone strap because they are afraid of snatch theft. Go figure.”
I never accused you of anything, I merely asked you a question about your strategy 🤔 A question is not an accusation. I also asked you a question about your plans for mental health support in prisons, that was not an accusation either.
And yes – as I said in my piece – I wear a…— Mhari Aurora (@MhariAurora) August 5, 2025
If you’re going to go for it, get the story straight…
Following Andrew Rosindell’s defection, Nigel Farage posted on X:
“Andrew Rosindell will not be the last MP to put country before party before the deadline on May 7th.”