Analysis of 15 editions of World This Weekend from January 24 – May 1 The programme is presented by the BBC’s former ‘Europe’ editor, Mark Mardell. Under his watch, the programme has worked consistently hard to present the arguments for…

MARDELL BIAS: Mark Mardell was the BBC’s first ‘Europe’ editor, appointed to the role back in 2006. The circumstances are very relevant to the EU referendum now underway. Back then, the EU was trying to foist on the member states…

MORE ROBINSON BIAS: One of the most extraordinary questions of the EU referendum so far was posed by Nick Robinson when he interviewed Lord Patten on the Today programme on Wednesday (27/4). In essence, it seemed that the Today presenter…

PRO-PATTEN BIAS: After his interview of Nigel Farage on Radio 4’s Today, in which presenter Nick Robinson attempted in every way he could to say that Ukip was an irrelevant political force, Robinson then interviewed Lord Patten, the former BBC…

A book published today by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)  about the future of the BBC contains a chapter in which research carried out by News-watch takes centre stage. The key areas of output investigated included the daily religious/spiritual…