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ActiveInstitutional

UKIP marched to Downing Street under a Ninth Crusade banner. The Met arrested four counter-protesters and no marchers.

On 29 August 2026 the UK Independence Party marched through central London under the banner of what its leader calls a Ninth Crusade. The Metropolitan Police imposed Public Order Act conditions, moving it off Edgware Road and routing it from Hyde Park Corner through Piccadilly, St James's Street, Pall Mall and Whitehall to Downing Street. About twenty people marched, against around one hundred and fifty counter-protesters. Four people were arrested that day and all four were counter-protesters. Not one marcher. The party is not coy about its subject: its leader tours the country holding what he calls crusades, says Muslims who have not integrated must be deported, and his supporters have carried placards reading 'Islamist invaders not welcome in Britain'. Criticism of Islam is protected and must stay protected. Section 29J of the Public Order Act 1986 expressly covers discussion, criticism, ridicule, insult and abuse of religions and of their adherents' beliefs, and this campaign asks for none of that to change. But section 29J construes the stirring up offences in Part 3A only. Sections 4A and 5 of the same Act cover threatening or abusive words directed at people who are present, and section 31 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 makes them religiously aggravated offences where hostility to a religious group is demonstrated or forms part of the motive, with no Attorney General consent required. In 2025 a man was convicted on exactly that basis for burning a Koran in public while declaring Islam a religion of terrorism. So the line is not between speech people like and speech they do not. It is between attacking a set of beliefs, which is lawful, and abusing the people who hold them in order to frighten them, which is not. No force has published where it draws that line. In December 2025 the Metropolitan Police announced publicly that it would be more assertive about chants at protests and arrests followed; we have questioned how that power has been used and we are not asking for it to be extended, only pointing out that a threshold can evidently be published when the force decides to publish one. This campaign writes to your MP, to MOPAC and the Mayor of London, to the Metropolitan Police and to the Home Secretary, asking each to publish the standard applied to anti-Muslim chants and placards at demonstrations, to say what assessment was made of UKIP's published material before the march, and to say how many religiously aggravated offences involving hostility towards Muslims have been recorded at demonstrations. It asks for no new offence, no new police power and no restriction on the right to criticise any religion.

1w ago
ActiveInstitutional

Cllr Owain Clatworthy told 343,000 people Britain is being 'Islamified'. Report him to the Ombudsman.

On 30 August 2026 Councillor Owain Clatworthy of Bridgend County Borough Council pinned a post to his verified X account, under the display name 'Cllr Owain Clatworthy', saying that 'Britain is being Islamified'. He told readers to 'walk through Cardiff, Rochdale, Blackburn, Luton, parts of Birmingham, Bradford and large stretches of East London', wrote that 'It is not “multiculturalism.” It is one culture. Islam', that 'British families have been pushed out', and closed 'I will not sit back and watch this country become something else. Neither should you.' It has been viewed more than 343,000 times and it is still pinned. The Welsh Model Code of Conduct binds him: paragraph 6(1)(a) forbids conduct that could reasonably be regarded as bringing his office or his authority into disrepute, and paragraph 2(1)(d) applies that at all times and in any capacity, so posting as a private citizen does not reach it; paragraph 4(a) requires due regard to equality of opportunity for all people regardless of religion, which it names expressly. It is not abstract: he sits on the council's Corporate Parenting Committee, responsible for looked after children including children who are asylum seekers, and Bridgend's Deputy Leader Councillor Jane Gebbie has already said his public statements 'risk undermining confidence that every child will be regarded equally'. This campaign takes three actions in one click. It prepares a code of conduct complaint to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales in your own words, with the dated evidence screenshot, for you to read and submit yourself, because the Ombudsman's declaration is yours alone to sign. It sends a letter to Kelly Watson, the council's statutory Monitoring Officer, asking her to log it for local resolution or the Standards Committee. And it writes to the Leader and Deputy Leader about the two things within their gift: his seat on the Corporate Parenting Committee, and what the council is willing to say in its own name. The complaint concedes that a councillor may argue for restrictive immigration policy and may criticise multiculturalism as a policy, because that concession is what separates it from a political disagreement the Ombudsman would dismiss.

1w ago
ActiveInstitutional

The Board of Deputies is helping write antisemitism lessons for Catholic schools. It spent years demanding the definition its own drafter says silences Israel's critics.

In late July 2026 the Department for Education awarded £100,000 from its Tackling Antisemitism in Education Innovation Fund to the Board of Deputies of British Jews, working with the Catholic Education Service and the Archdiocese of Birmingham, to produce antisemitism teaching resources for Catholic secondary schools, a pilot positioned for national roll-out across the 241 schools and colleges of England's largest diocese. Children should be taught to recognise and reject antisemitism. The problem is the definition: none of the published announcements says which one the children will be taught, and the Board of Deputies has campaigned for years for the IHRA working definition, demanding its 'full and unconditional adoption'. Seven of the eleven examples that accompany that definition concern the State of Israel, its lead drafter Kenneth Stern told the US Congress in 2017 that it is used to suppress lawful political speech, and more than two hundred scholars wrote the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism in 2021 as an alternative because of that record. The stakes are concrete: in September 2025 the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, and on 17 July 2025 an Israeli strike hit Holy Family church in Gaza City, killing Saad Salama, Foumia Ayyad and Najwa Abu Daoud and wounding the parish priest. Under the IHRA definition as applied in practice, a teacher or pupil who states those facts could be labelled antisemitic in a Catholic classroom, and schools carry statutory duties of political balance under sections 406 and 407 of the Education Act 1996. In one click this campaign sends a personalised letter to Archbishop Bernard Longley and his secretariat, the Birmingham Diocesan Education Service, the Catholic Education Service and its Chairman Bishop Marcus Stock, asking each to guarantee the resources will not adopt the IHRA definition, to bring in Jewish organisations the Board does not speak for, to publish the materials before they enter any classroom, or to decline the funding. It also drafts a representation for the Department for Education's own contact form for you to submit yourself. Run in partnership with Christians for Palestine.

2w ago
ActiveInstitutional

Sacha Baron Cohen retired Ali G. Amazon revived the caricature. Cinemas can refuse it.

Ali G: Who Iz I?, written, directed and produced by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen for Amazon MGM Studios, opens in cinemas on 23 October 2026, with Sony Pictures distributing internationally. Sony Pictures UK is selling it with the line 'He iz back. We ain't liable.' The character is a white comedian's caricature of Black British street culture, and the communities imitated said so from the start: the Guardian reported Black British comedians' verdict under the headline 'Comics find Ali G is an alibi for racism' in January 2000, Felix Dexter said the act lets 'the liberal middle classes laugh at black street culture' in comfort, and Jeanette Winterson asked what separates it from the Black and White Minstrels. The catalogue behind it drew the same complaint from Kazakh and Arab communities over Borat and The Dictator, in letters to Amazon and the film academies that this campaign quotes. Baron Cohen retired the character himself in December 2007. Studios sell films, but cinemas choose them, and no film is owed a screen. This campaign sends a personalised letter, in your name, to the booking, guest-relations and press desks of major cinema chains in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, Mexico and the Middle East, every address verified on the chain's own official site, asking each chain to leave the film off its screens, to publish its reasoning if it screens it anyway, and to reply stating its position. Chains in non-English markets receive a hand-written letter in their own language. Picturehouse Cinemas has already responded: it is not planning to screen the film, so Picturehouse no longer receives letters and the campaign continues with the chains that have yet to answer. The campaign now also writes to the BBFC, the body that must certify the film before UK cinemas can show it, asking it to apply its own discrimination guidelines to the classification decision and publish its reasoning; past participants can send just that one new letter.

2w ago
ActiveMedia Complaint

The Mail printed a psychiatrist's guess at Jason Arday's mind. Hours later he was found dead.

Jason Arday resigned from Cambridge on 5 August 2026 writing that he had reached 'the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure'. The national press answered with at least 188 further articles in nine days, by our census of fifteen outlets. On 14 August he was found dead at his home in Battersea, aged 41; his death is with the coroner and this campaign makes no claim about its cause. It holds five publications to account for what is on the record. At 1:01am on the day he died the Daily Mail published a column headlined with the promise of 'one condition that could explain everything', although its own text admits the author had never met him and had 'no idea what has been going on in his mind'. At 3:11pm the Telegraph published its interrogation of his childhood disability, one minute before the London Ambulance Service called the police from his home. At 6:12pm The Times published a column mocking him, three hours after the ambulance call, then deleted it without a word once the death became public. The Sun ignored the story until the humiliation began. The Spectator made him its cover story and ran 21 pieces in 21 days, releasing a podcast titled 'It's a cesspool!' on the morning he died. Two days before he died, The Guardian headlined a year-below YouTuber's 'always cracking jokes' quote over two named classmates and the school's own adult helper who supported his account, and framed the supporting statements as 'organised' by Arday. This campaign is multi-pronged: a formal IPSO Editors' Code Clause 1 complaint against each of the five IPSO members, anchored to a specific dated article, plus a direct letter to each editor at the publication's own complaints address, plus four questions The Guardian's readers' editor (its own regulator; it never joined IPSO) must answer on the record. Eleven actions, one click. Complaints are filed, not upheld. Full census: newscord.org/editorials/jason-arday-pile-on

1mo ago
ActiveCivil Liberties

A mosque is attacked in Britain every five days. The Government's £40m has not arrived.

On 22 July 2026 the British Muslim Trust, the organisation the Government appointed to monitor anti-Muslim hate, counted 70 attacks on mosques and Muslim places of worship in twelve months, one every five days, nine of them in London, with a single Birmingham mosque attacked three times. It also says the money is not reaching mosques: they wait months for the £40 million security scheme, some as long as 18 months, and applications are refused with no reason given. The eleven weeks from late April to mid July were the sharpest stretch of that year. There were at least nine documented attacks, plots and threats against Muslims in Britain and Ireland: Ishmail Hussein stabbed at his home in Southwark on the morning of the Golders Green attack; a family home in Blackburn firebombed with children inside; five people wounded in Edinburgh, two of them leaving prayers at Broomhouse Mosque; the Al Madinah Hall in Dublin set alight in daylight; a worshipper beaten outside the Noor Ul Islam Mosque in Leyton; a replica mosque burned on a bonfire in Moygashel under a sign reading 'end the threat of radical Islam'; twelve arrests over a far-right terror threat to the 15,000-strong UK Ijtima festival in Suffolk, three on suspicion of conspiracy to murder; an emailed bomb threat to a 450-pupil Birmingham school on the last day of term; and a 14-year-old charged over an alleged plot to attack two mosques in Sutton. After Golders Green the state rightly declared a terrorist incident within hours, raised the threat level to severe, and announced more than £250 million over three years. For this wave: no COBR announcement, no new money, and, by our published census, eleven times less coverage in the first 72 hours (at least 387 articles against 34). This campaign sends a personalised letter to your MP demanding equal protection and publication of how many mosque security applications have been received, approved, refused and actually paid; a formal BBC complaint on the coverage pattern and the 8 July Leyton headline; and a reader letter to eight national newsdesks, in one go. Every demand is for parity, never for the reduction of any other community's protection; all charges are allegations until decided by the courts.

2mo ago
ActiveMedia Complaint

Nine killed, a child among them. The BBC's headline said 'police post'.

On 14 July 2026 BBC News online reported nine people killed by Israeli fire in Gaza in one day: seven at a police post near a busy market in Jabalia, a woman among them; a man in Khan Younis; and Muataz Abu Shaar, a boy of ten, shot in Rafah while, in his aunt's words, 'sitting in his tent, getting changed'. All of it under the 'ceasefire' in force since October 2025, during Israel's genocide in Gaza. The headline said only 'Israeli strike on police post in north Gaza kills seven, officials say': the woman, the man and the child appear nowhere at headline level, while other outlets headlined 'Israeli fire kills nine in Gaza, including a 10-year-old, officials say' the same day. The first sentence branded the police force whose officers were killed 'Hamas-run', a label that attributes no claim but files the dead, and the tens of thousands of Palestinians who staff Gaza's civil institutions, under a UK-proscribed organisation before any evidence is offered. And the Israeli military's justification, that the dead were 'terrorists' and a Hamas battalion's head of military security, ran immediately after the killings with no note that no evidence was provided and that the claims cannot be independently verified, the exact transparency qualifier the BBC attaches to Gaza health ministry figures. This campaign files a formal BBC Stage 1 complaint via the BBC Complaints API, anchored to Editorial Guidelines Section 3 (Accuracy) and Section 4 (Impartiality), with the BBC's stock replies ('headlines should not be read in isolation', qualifiers are 'for transparency') answered in advance. Complaints are filed, not upheld; no BBC or Ofcom finding has been made.

2mo ago
ActiveCivil Liberties

He told millions Dunblane was 'one murder'. It was sixteen children and their teacher.

On 8 July 2026, Rupert Lowe MP told The Joe Rogan Experience, the world's largest podcast, that over 250,000 British girls were raped by Muslim men, that 'the Hadiths' describe women as meat, and that handguns were banned because of 'one murder' at Dunblane. None of it survives contact with the record: the 250,000 figure was never counted (it is a 2018 Lords extrapolation from one town, rejected by Full Fact and The Journal, and the 2022 national inquiry concluded the true scale is 'simply not possible to know'); no hadith calls women meat (the phrase traces to a single 2006 sermon that British Muslims condemned at the time); and Dunblane was sixteen children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, murdered on 13 March 1996. Three days after his report was published, five Muslim men were attacked in Edinburgh by a man reportedly shouting that he was protecting the country from Muslims raping children; on 7 July a worshipper was assaulted outside the Noor Ul Islam Mosque in Leyton; Tell MAMA logged a record 6,313 anti-Muslim hate cases in 2024, up 165 percent in two years. This campaign sends one letter to your own MP, looked up from your postcode and tailored automatically to their public record, asking them to correct the 250,000 figure on the record, protect places of worship, and apply emergency response protocols, including COBR, with equal urgency to every community targeted by hatred. Constituents in Great Yarmouth write directly to Mr Lowe with four corrections, including publishing the accounts of an inquiry that raised over £760,000 from 22,000 donors on a written promise of transparency that has not yet been kept. No regulator or committee has ruled on these statements; the letters ask for corrections and equal protection.

2mo ago
ActiveInstitutional

Trump phoned FIFA, and Balogun's ban vanished. Quansah got no such call.

At the 2026 World Cup, United States forward Folarin Balogun was sent off against Bosnia and Herzegovina after a VAR review, which carried an automatic one-match suspension under Article 66 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. United States President Donald Trump then publicly confirmed that he telephoned FIFA President Gianni Infantino to ask for a review, saying he asked for a review because he did not think it was a foul. Within days, FIFA's Disciplinary Committee suspended the implementation of Balogun's automatic ban under Article 27, placing him on a one-year probation and making him available to face Belgium. UEFA called the decision unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable, and said it crossed a red line. Belgium's challenge was rejected as inadmissible because Belgium was not a party to the proceedings, after being given only hours to respond. By contrast, England defender Jarell Quansah was sent off for a comparable VAR-confirmed challenge against Mexico in the same round of the same tournament, and is serving the standard automatic one-match ban, with no Article 27 relief and no head of state intervening. The concern is not that Article 27 exists. It is that Article 27 contains no published criteria for when it may be applied, and that this criteria-free discretion was exercised within days of an admitted call from a head of state about a live case, which is exactly the appearance FIFA's own Code of Ethics (Articles 13 and 14) and Statutes (Articles 15 and 52) exist to prevent. This campaign files a complaint with FIFA's own compliance portal, in one action, asking FIFA to publish the reasoned Article 27 decision, refer President Infantino's conduct to the independent Ethics Committee, adopt binding published criteria for Article 27 that bar its use after government contact, and guarantee equal treatment for Quansah and every comparable case or rescind the Balogun relief.

2mo ago
ActiveSporting Boycott

Their own members voted to suspend Israel. Now the FAI plans to play them.

The Republic of Ireland men's team is scheduled to play Israel twice in the 2026-27 UEFA Nations League: on 27 September in Debrecen, Hungary, and on 4 October in Backa Topola, Serbia. In November 2025 the FAI's own General Assembly voted 74 to 7, on a motion brought by Bohemian FC, to formally request that UEFA suspend the Israel Football Association for breach of UEFA statutes. UEFA has not acted, and the FAI Board has told members it intends to fulfil both fixtures, warning of forfeits and financial losses; more than one tenth of its members triggered an Extraordinary General Meeting, convened for 8 July 2026, to challenge that position. The October 'home' game cannot even be staged in Ireland: at the FAI's own request it will be played behind closed doors in Serbia, with season ticket holders compensated. In February 2022 FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian teams within four days of the invasion of Ukraine, a decision upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and it was the refusal of national associations to take the field against Russia that made that suspension unavoidable. This campaign sends, in one click and with each channel optional, a representation to the FAI Board via the governance and reception inboxes published in the FAI's own Customer Service Charter, and prepares a shorter representation for the FAI's official contact form, asking the Board to decline the fixtures, stand by the mandate of its members, and press UEFA publicly to act on the suspension request the General Assembly instructed it to make.

2mo ago
ActiveInstitutional

FIFA banned Russia in four days. Israel has killed 567 Palestinian footballers, and FIFA still won't act.

On 29 June 2026 Israeli forces shot dead Saleem al-Ashqar, the 32 year old goalkeeper for Khadamat Khan Younis, in al-Qarara, according to the Palestinian Football Association. He is one of 1,009 people from Palestinian sport the Palestinian FA says Israel has killed since October 2023, 567 of them from football: players, coaches, referees and board members, many of them children. This is happening within a genocide that the United Nations Commission of Inquiry has found Israel to be committing in Gaza. FIFA's own rules are not being applied. Article 64.2 of the FIFA Statutes says no member association may play on the territory of another without its approval, yet at least six Israeli league clubs are based in settlements on occupied Palestinian land, documented by Human Rights Watch in 2016 and Amnesty International in 2026, and in July 2024 the International Court of Justice found Israel's occupation unlawful and its settlements illegal. In January 2024 the Palestinian FA asked FIFA to investigate the destruction of Palestinian football, including seven destroyed stadiums and 288 damaged or destroyed facilities, and it is still waiting. FIFA can act fast when it chooses to: it suspended Russia within four days of its invasion of Ukraine and stripped Indonesia of hosting a tournament for refusing to host an Israeli team. Palestine first moved to suspend Israel in 2015 and again in 2024. In March 2026 FIFA refused all sanctions, calling the West Bank's status an unresolved and highly complex matter, a question the International Court of Justice had already resolved in 2024, and Palestine has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. This campaign lets a member of the public file a human rights report with FIFA in one action: we email FIFA's Human Rights Complaints team for you, and we prepare and walk you through a report on FIFA's own official reporting portal. Both ask FIFA to put the 2024 suspension motion to a vote, to enforce Article 64.2 or apply the same standard it applied to Russia, and to publish the legal advice behind its inaction and the independent investigation the Palestinian FA requested in January 2024.

2mo ago
ActiveCivil Liberties

Khan blocked Palantir over London's values. Then Palantir threatened to sue, and he gave it a contract anyway.

On 20 May 2026 the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Kaya Comer-Schwartz, acting for the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), blocked the Metropolitan Police's proposed contract with Palantir Technologies for the Unified Operational Analytics platform, worth up to £50m. City Hall gave two reasons: a 'clear and serious breach' of procurement rules (the Met engaged only one supplier, did not put its strategy to the Deputy Mayor for approval, and did not demonstrate value for money), and that public money should not support firms that 'act contrary to London's values', citing Palantir's work with the Israeli military and with US immigration enforcement. Palantir's UK chief executive, Louis Mosley, then attacked the decision in broadcast interviews, accusing the Mayor of 'putting politics over public safety' and leaving the Met 'fighting criminals with their hands tied behind their back'. Palantir's lawyers sent a pre-action letter to MOPAC and the company launched a challenge in the High Court. On or around 24 June 2026, within days of that legal challenge, MOPAC granted Palantir a pilot contract worth about £2m, lasting at least 12 months, while the Met runs a fresh procurement. The company did not change. Palantir's strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, signed in January 2024, supports a military campaign a UN Commission of Inquiry has found to amount to genocide in Gaza, and it still powers US deportation operations. The values City Hall invoked did not change. What changed was that Palantir threatened to sue. This campaign sends, in one click and with each recipient optional, a formal complaint to MOPAC and the Deputy Mayor, a letter to the Mayor of London, and a request to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee to put the reversal on the public record. It does not allege the contract is unlawful and does not ask anyone to compromise public safety. It demands transparency and consistency: a values test set in London's name should mean something, and not collapse the moment a wealthy supplier threatens court.

2mo ago
ActiveMedia Complaint

The Spectator said a UN report has 'no evidence' Israel targeted children. The report says otherwise.

On 24 June 2026 The Spectator published a comment piece by Jonathan Sacerdoti, in its Coffee House section, headlined 'No, Israel isn't deliberately targeting children in Gaza'. It concerns the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry report 'The essence of childhood has been destroyed' (A/HRC/62/CRP.2, 18 June 2026). The article tells readers, as fact, that the report's weapon findings rest on 'a doctor's guess about which weapon caused a wound', that its material is 'unverified' with 'nothing connecting the dots', and that 'after 94 pages, the Commission cannot produce one' documented case. The report contradicts each: it consulted two independent forensic pathologists with CT scans (paragraph 10), conducted independent forensic analysis in 15 of 17 cases (paragraph 65), used audio ballistic analysis to identify the weapon (paragraph 52), verified thousands of open-source items through cross-referencing and forensic authentication (paragraphs 8 and 10), and documents specific cases including a 10-day-old baby shot in Nuseirat camp on 12 April 2024 and a four-year-old girl shot in Khan Younis on 24 August 2024. This campaign files, in one click, a formal IPSO Editors' Code complaint to The Spectator under Clause 1 (Accuracy), 1(i) and 1(iv). It does not contest the author's opinion; it identifies the false statements of fact, which Clause 1(iv) requires to be distinguished from comment. Filed in your name; no IPSO ruling has been made.

2mo ago
ActiveMedia Complaint

They dropped the word genocide. Tell the Herald and ABC to correct their headlines.

On 23 June 2026 the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israel's deliberate targeting and killing of Palestinian children amounts to genocide and atrocity crimes in Gaza, alongside war crimes in the West Bank. The United Nations news service led with the word: 'Israel continues to commit genocide, atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, UN independent commission finds'. Many outlets carried the inquiry's own term in their headlines, including the UN's own news service and Al Jazeera. Two did not. The Herald (Scotland) ran 'UN committee finds Israel targeted Palestinian children'. ABC News (Australia) ran 'UN inquiry accuses Israel of deliberately targeting and killing Palestinian children'. Both report the lesser element, that children were targeted, and drop the finding that gives the targeting its legal meaning: genocide. This campaign sends, in one click and with each recipient optional, a direct accuracy correction request by email to the Herald, and a representation prepared for the ABC's official audience feedback form, anchored to the ABC Code of Practice. Each asks for the headline to be amended to reflect the inquiry's central finding, and for the change to be recorded. It is a headline-accuracy complaint, not a political objection, addressed to the coverage and never to any individual journalist.

2mo ago
ActiveMedia Complaint

Media Complicity in Covering Israeli War Crimes During Eid Al Adha.

On Eid al-Adha, Netanyahu announced he had ordered Israeli forces to seize 70% of Gaza, an expansion of a military occupation past the 'yellow line' the October ceasefire confined them to, and an occupation the International Court of Justice ruled unlawful on 19 July 2024. Western outlets headlined it as administration: CNN wrote 'take over 70% of Gaza', Reuters wrote 'Expand Gaza Control to 70 Percent', and Sky News wrote 'Israel will move to control 70% of Gaza'. The October ceasefire confined Israeli forces to the 'yellow line' at roughly 53% of the strip, context these headlines strip out. The Independent and the BBC went further, hiding the perpetrator of the same strike: The Independent's 'Gaza mourns 10 killed in Eid strikes as Netanyahu vows wider control of the strip' does not say who killed the 10, while its own first sentence reports they were killed in Israeli strikes, including five children. The BBC's 'Gaza City hospitals say several killed in strike, as Israel targets Hamas leaders' names Israel only as targeting Hamas while leaving the killing agentless, when its own first sentence reports at least 10, including five children, killed in an Israeli strike. Send five standards-anchored complaints in one click: CNN Editorial Feedback, the Reuters Standards desk with a corrected wire advisory request, Sky News Editorial Feedback, The Independent Reader's Editor under Editors' Code Clause 1 (with the right to escalate to IPSO), and the BBC via its complaints API under Editorial Guidelines Section 3. Complaints are filed, not upheld.

3mo ago
ActiveMedia Complaint

A Panel on AI With No Critics. File a BBC Impartiality Complaint About the Question Time AI Special.

On 28 May 2026, BBC One broadcast a Question Time 'AI special' on the future of artificial intelligence in the UK. AI policy is a contested matter of public policy: the government's Data (Use and Access) Bill triggered a revolt by more than 400 artists, including Paul McCartney and Elton John, over the unpaid use of copyrighted creative work to train AI models, forcing a partial government reversal. Yet every one of the five panellists was an advocate for, or had a direct stake in, the rollout of AI: a Labour minister championing AI across government, the Conservative technology shadow, a former Google executive and AI author, the Tony Blair Institute (funded by the billionaire Larry Ellison and a prominent lobbyist for AI in government), and the chief executive of Synthesia, a deepfake-technology company. There was no AI-sceptic academic, no creative-industries or copyright voice, no trade union or worker voice on job losses, and no AI-ethics critic. On a controversial subject of public policy, only one side was in the room. File a Stage 1 BBC complaint, in one click, via the official BBC Complaints API, as a television broadcast complaint about Question Time (BBC One, 28 May 2026). Anchored to BBC Editorial Guidelines Section 4 (Impartiality) and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code Section 5. The complaint addresses the editorial decision to assemble the panel, never any individual contributor. Complaints are filed, not upheld.

3mo ago
ActiveMedia Complaint

File an Ofcom Complaint Against Sky News. 'Targeted and Specialist' AI Framing.

A Sky News segment, fronted by the channel's military analyst Professor Michael Clarke, told a UK audience that Israel's AI targeting in Lebanon is 'targeted and specialist'. Three weeks earlier, the Los Angeles Times (Nabih Bulos, 4 May 2026) had published a major investigation on the same class of Israeli AI system that reaches the opposite conclusion: Israel's AI builds target profiles in seconds where the same work previously took hundreds of investigators several weeks, and flags relatives and financiers as combatants because they share communication patterns. An Israeli AI specialist quoted in the article warned the system uses 'data, not logic' and would repeat mistakes 'faster and with more confidence'. +972 Magazine and The Guardian (3 April 2024) report that Israel runs Lavender with an acknowledged 10% error rate, that Israeli analysts spend around 20 seconds reviewing each target, that Lavender flagged up to 37,000 Palestinians as targets, and that Israeli forces used Where's Daddy? to wait for a marked individual to enter their family home before striking. The Washington Post (29 December 2024) reports that Israel built Habsora to 'blast open the human bottleneck' of conventional target generation. The UN Secretary-General is 'deeply troubled'. Israel has killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon since 2 March 2026, the vast majority civilians. File a personalised Ofcom complaint via the official endpoint in one click, anchored to Broadcasting Code Rules 5.1 (due accuracy), 5.7 (no misrepresentation), 5.12 (due weight on a matter of major political controversy) and 2.2 (materially misleading factual content). The complaint addresses the broadcast and the Code, not the analyst. Complaints are filed, not upheld.

3mo ago
ActiveMedia Complaint

Call It What It Is. File a BBC Editorial Guidelines Complaint About the 'Taunting' Headline.

On 20 May 2026, BBC News online published an article headlined 'Far-right Israeli minister condemned for taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists' (article clyp32weyn8o). The body reports approximately 430 Global Sumud Flotilla detainees kneeling, hands tied behind their backs, foreheads forced to the floor, after being seized from civilian vessels in international waters. On camera, a serving Israeli minister classified them as 'terrorism supporters' and 'terrorists helping murderers', and asked the Prime Minister for the 'terrorist prisons' for them 'for a long, long time'. One detainee was pushed to the ground for shouting 'Free Palestine'. Two days earlier, a mandatory death-penalty law championed by the minister's party had taken legal effect, applied through military courts which try only non-Israeli-citizen Palestinians. The minister is a UK-sanctioned individual (FCDO, 10 June 2025) for 'inciting extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights'. The BBC's word for all of this in the headline was 'taunting'. Cambridge English Dictionary reserves that word for schoolyards. Same-day comparators on the same wires: HuffPost (via AP) led with 'Humiliating'; Common Dreams led with 'Intolerable Abuse of Abductees'; foreign ministries with 'intolerable', 'abominable', 'illegally abducted', 'violation of human dignity'. File a Stage 1 BBC complaint, in one click, via the official BBC Complaints API. Anchored to Section 3 (Accuracy). The complaint addresses the coverage and the institutional headline choice, never any individual journalist. Complaints are filed, not upheld.

3mo ago
EndedInstitutional

Restore CPJ's definition of a journalist, and remove the board chair who rewrote it.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has changed its definition of who counts as a journalist, and the effect has been to drop Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza from its record. CPJ's board chair, Jacob Weisberg, has been the driving force behind the change. The definition was not CPJ's to change: its own rules, consistent with international humanitarian law, treat a journalist affiliated with an armed non-state actor, even one some governments class as a terrorist group, as a civilian, not a combatant, unless directly participating in hostilities, and CPJ's own database states it found no evidence that the removed journalists were. By the account of CPJ's own former board member Nika Soon-Shiong, the move to reopen who is a journalist followed a 27 May 2026 Washington Free Beacon article that attacked the board as insufficiently pro-Israel; the board member who put her concerns in writing is no longer on the board. This campaign sends, in one click, a formal demand to CPJ's board, general and press inboxes: restore CPJ's own definition and reinstate the journalists removed under the change, remove Jacob Weisberg as chair of the board, appoint a Palestinian representative to the board, and have an independent international human rights lawyer, working alongside Palestinian representation, review and sign off on the methodology. It names no journalist as anything, and routes only through CPJ's own institutional inboxes.

2mo ago
EndedMedia Complaint

Al-Aqsa is in occupied East Jerusalem, not 'in Israel'. File a BBC accuracy complaint about From Our Own Correspondent.

On 27 June 2026, BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent introduced a despatch from Jerusalem with the words: 'Today, we're in Israel where the status quo at Jerusalem's holiest site is under threat from Israeli nationalists.' The holiest site is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the Haram al-Sharif in the Old City of East Jerusalem. East Jerusalem is occupied territory under international law, and the BBC's own published style guide on Israel and the Palestinians says so: 'Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967. It annexed the area in 1980 and sees it as its exclusive domain. Under international law the area is considered to be occupied territory.' The same guidance tells BBC journalists not to suggest East Jerusalem is part of Israel, and to say it is occupied where relevant. The despatch did the opposite: it located the site 'in Israel' and never once mentioned the occupation, even though the threat to the status quo from Israeli nationalists, its very subject, is inseparable from the occupied status of the site. This campaign files, in one click, a formal BBC Stage 1 complaint via the official BBC Complaints API as a radio broadcast complaint, anchored to Section 3 (Accuracy) and the BBC's own style guide, on two points: locating Al-Aqsa 'in Israel', and omitting the occupation where it was relevant. The complaint addresses the scripting and editorial decision, never any individual presenter, does not cite IPSO (the BBC is not IPSO-regulated), and asks the BBC to apply its own guidance. Complaints are filed, not upheld.

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