Tag: journalism
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The Clickbait Breakdown: How The Media Converts Scottish Education into Rage-Bait
Scottish education reporting hit another low this week with The Scotsman’s latest piece of statistical rage-baiting: a page-padded countdown of Scotland’s “worst-performing” council areas for Higher passes. We are no strangers to local news reducing complex public institutions to raw, decontextualised metrics. But pieces like this step beyond lazy reporting; they actively mislead the public…
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Book Review: What If Reform Wins by Peter Chappell
What is Reform Wins: A Scenario is a speculative fiction book by journalist Peter Chappell in which he develops a fictional scenario in which the Reform party secures a majority in the House of Commons. It was published by Bloomsbury on the 30th of April, 2026. No review copy was provided by the publisher. Blurb: A…