Nima Akram

Media Analysis · October 2026

The Telegraph still has all 42 pieces it ran on Jason Arday, who was charged with nothing. Its report on its own columnist facing a criminal trial lasted under two days.

A charge heard in open court is public, and the law protects fair and accurate reports of it. The Telegraph and the Daily Mail reported that a Telegraph columnist is to stand trial, then deleted their reports within two days, and the Spectator, edited by Michael Gove, deleted her column. The same papers kept all 100 pieces they ran on Jason Arday, who was never charged with any crime. By Nima Akram.

Data Investigation · October 2026

Police recorded 3,162 hate crimes against Jews in a year. The count does not say how many were attacks on Jews and how many were words about Israel.

Antisemitism is real, and Jewish people in Britain are attacked for being Jewish. But the count meant to measure it also counts words about Israel, because CST, the charity that shares reports with the police, follows the IHRA definition that treats comparing Israel to the Nazis as antisemitic, and Met guidance obtained under Freedom of Information says the Arabic word for resistance should be investigated. The Home Office publishes no breakdown, so nobody can say how many of the 3,162 crimes were attacks on Jews. By Nima Akram.

Editorial Analysis · October 2026

Green Party members voted that Zionism is racism. The Telegraph went after the Palestinian woman who wrote the motion.

Green Party members voted 1,022 to 813 that Zionism is racism. The Telegraph printed 'hunted down' as Lubna Speitan's words though they came from an anonymous X account, headlined a 'good friend' nobody named, and left out that her legal challenge made the Met look again at war crimes accusations against Britons who served in Gaza. By Nima Akram.

Data Investigation · October 2026

Israeli occupation forces ordered that no vehicle return to Gaza. Their own investigations name Israelis they killed. The BBC never named the order.

At 11:22 on 7 October 2023 the Gaza Division of the Israeli occupation forces told its units that not a single vehicle could return to Gaza, and at 11:59 Southern Command ordered any withdrawal stopped at any cost. The Israeli occupation's own investigations and memorial records put 13 deaths down to Israeli fire, and the IOF decided its safety department would not investigate the rest. The BBC has not named the Hannibal Directive in three years. We read 4,367 articles by 28 Western outlets from the week after the attack: 49.4% condemned it in their own words and 0.7% condemned the Israeli occupation's killing in Gaza. Of 144 articles that carried false atrocity claims, not one has been corrected or taken down. By Nima Akram.

Data Investigation · October 2026

Fifteen news reports on the Greens' Zionism vote gave the Israeli state 773 words and Palestinians 98. Thirteen quoted no Palestinian at all.

Green Party members voted 1,022 to 813 to treat Zionism as racism and to back one democratic state with equal rights for all. We counted every word of 15 reports by the BBC, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Mail, the wires and others, by whose position each word carried. Opponents got 5,632 words and supporters 620. Eight of the ten reports that quoted the single-state clause cut it before equal rights for all, none of 22 headlines named Palestinians, Gaza or genocide, and the Telegraph rewrote its evening headline to carry Israel's accusation of terrorism. By Nima Akram.

Media Analysis · September 2026

Larry Ellison gave Israel's army charity $26m and hosted Netanyahu on his island. His family now owns CBS News, a slice of TikTok, and has a signed $111bn deal for CNN.

We followed the money behind the outlets that set the agenda in America and Britain: who owns them, where they are incorporated and taxed, what their owners have given, signed or said about Israel, and what they did with the megaphone. Seven owners take more than half of all visits to the top 50 US news sites. The Ellisons own CBS News and The Free Press, hold 15 per cent of TikTok US and have a court-frozen deal for CNN. Amazon holds Israel's $1.2bn military cloud contract. Axel Springer makes support for Israel a written condition of employment and, since June 2026, owns the Daily Telegraph. In Britain the papers that generalise most about Muslims are owned from Delaware, Berlin, Dubai and Bermuda. The thread is a chequebook and a political project, not a religion, and most of the men holding it are not Jewish. By Nima Akram.

Editorial Analysis · September 2026

Palantir paid a Labour peer for sixteen months of votes. Then his register went blank.

Tom Watson, Lord Watson of Wyre Forest, has been paid by Palantir since November 2024, registered as a member of its Public Services Advisory Board. He voted 240 times in the House of Lords while it paid him, 30 of them on the Crime and Policing Bill while Palantir chased a £50m Met contract, and when he spoke on the data bill he declared UK Music, not Palantir. On 18 September 2026 Palantir made him senior vice president to fight the campaign to drop its £330m NHS contract at the February 2027 break clause. His register of interests now reads one line: exempt from registration. He keeps the title, the peerage and the Labour whip. The Code of Conduct says none of it broke a rule. That is the problem, and the piece says where the power to fix it sits: the chief whip, the Conduct Committee and the Health Secretary.

Media Analysis · September 2026

A Yale study says the New York Times is biased against Israel. Its own tables show the paper gave a dead Israeli 25 times the coverage of a dead Palestinian.

Edieal Pinker's study of 1,559 New York Times articles on Israel's genocide in Gaza is being reported as proof of anti-Israel bias. Its headline finding is that the Times did not remind readers of 7 October in every article. It never divides by the dead. Using the paper's own tables and the Gaza Ministry of Health count, a dead Israeli got 25 times the coverage of a dead Palestinian, a dead Israeli soldier 16 times, and one hostage more articles than a thousand Palestinian dead. The ministry count is a floor: the Lancet puts the true toll 41 per cent higher, which widens the gap to about 40 to 1. We also set out the author's own record on Israel and Gaza, who read his drafts, and who is promoting the result. By Nima Akram.

Media Analysis · September 2026

Islam forbids terror. The press wrote “Islamic terror” 8,710 times in five years, and “Christian terror” 31 times.

On the 25th anniversary of 11 September the Washington Times reported that Trump had vowed victory over 'Islamic terror'. He had not said it; the paper did. The Quran forbids the killing of the innocent and makes the spreading of terror a capital crime, and the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, al-Azhar, the Amman Message's 200 scholars and the 126 signatories of the letter to al-Baghdadi have all said so. Nobody wrote 'Christian terror' over Oslo, Colorado Springs or Finsbury Park, and nobody should have. We counted the phrase in Google Books and in five years of English-language news, set six killers who invoked their own religion beside the words the press used for them, and put the security figures that cut the other way on the page. By Nima Akram.

Data Investigation · September 2026

Two crypto billionaires gave Reform UK £72 million in two days. One pleaded guilty in New York. The other gave Farage £5 million that nobody declared.

Ben Delo gave Reform £36m on 11 September 2026 and Christopher Harborne matched it the next day. Delo pleaded guilty to a US money-laundering control offence in 2022 and was pardoned by Trump; Harborne owns around 12 per cent of Tether and his undeclared £5m gift to Farage is under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. Reform says the money only levels the playing field with Labour and the Conservatives. We pulled every registered donation since 2017 from the Electoral Commission: Reform was already out-raising both parties, 2026 is now the biggest fundraising year any British party has recorded, and about 90 per cent of Reform's money since the election comes from two men. With charts, the Harborne ledger, the crypto bill that vanished from Reform's website, and the Westminster building Delo funds where Rupert Lowe drafts mass deportation.