Andrew Gilligan has worked at the BBC, the Telegraph, the Sunday Times, City Hall and Downing Street. Today he writes for The Spectator and Policy Exchange, and his main subject is British Muslims. This dossier sets out his career, what he writes, what the NewsCord Watchdog found in it and the people he has written about.
Britain's papers have made the Board of Deputies the voice of British Jews on Palestine. They print its attacks on Palestine solidarity as the Jewish community's verdict, never tell readers its constitution commits it to "advance Israel's security, welfare and standing", and shut Palestinians out of stories about their own land.
In 115 of 199 English-language election reports we checked, Palestinian citizens of Israel were only ever "Arabs". Every leading candidate ran on denying Palestinians a state, a say in government or a home in Gaza. Here is what they posted, in their own words.
UN investigators found genocidal acts in Gaza since the 'ceasefire', and extermination, torture, rape and persecution in the West Bank. We counted every word of 15 reports. Israel's denial got 1,178 words. A Palestinian got 46, and he was defending the Palestinian Authority.
In our English-language sample, 35.1% of Brazil result headlines included the loser’s challenge, against 26.7% for Ecuador. Sky put Bolsonaro’s rejection in its headline and González’s below it. CBS buried the fact that both Brazilian campaigns had asked for extra voting time.
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.
On 21 August 2026 Cambridge said its Black students and staff were still being sent racist, hateful and abusive messages. Six days later senior Black academics told Black staff they could come to them for support and advice. The Telegraph reported the offer under an accusation of breaking equality law. The word abuse appears nowhere in its article, which leaves out the law that allows the support, gives the accusation to anonymous academics and contradicts its own headline in its last paragraph.
On 4 October 2026 a crowd in Gosport tried to stop 149 people rescued from the Channel being brought ashore. It blocked ambulances, a woman on a megaphone called the people on the boats vermin, and Hampshire Police arrested twelve people, two on suspicion of racially aggravated offences. The same night protesters in Dover chanted the n-word. The BBC's report never mentions racism and says the protest mostly remained peaceful. The footage, the BBC's own accuracy code, and three things the BBC should do.
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.
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.
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.
A parody that applies the exact statistical method behind the '250,000 victims' figure to the native British population and 'proves' 34 million are violent tribal gang members. If the method is worthless here, it was worthless there. The serious point, and the government's own evidence that most child sexual abuse in Britain is committed by white men inside families and online, follows the joke.
Israel bombed the al-Kayali residential building in Gaza City on the eve of Eid al-Adha and killed a Hamas commander, his wife, his child, and at least one other woman. BBC, LA Times, Independent, Times and NBC News each named only the commander in their headlines. A six-section headline-versus-body audit anchored to each outlet's own accuracy standard.
BBC, The Independent, Reuters and the New York Times led their coverage of the 15 May 2026 Gaza City strike with Israel's stated objective, not the seven Palestinians killed. Anadolu and Al Jazeera, reading the same wires, made the more proportionate editorial judgement.
Prince Harry's New Statesman op-ed condemned antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred as twin manifestations of the same well of division. Within 24 hours, eight major Western outlets had reduced the balanced argument to a one-sided statement on antisemitism alone.
Two Telegraph hit pieces in five days, same correspondent. A 17% video clip framed as a Holocaust comparison. A question about a Muslim victim rebranded as a 'conspiracy.' A coordinated defunding play against the Southbank Centre.
How the BBC, Guardian, and Sky News systematically obscure Israeli responsibility through attribution gaps, passive voice, and unreported genocidal statements.
How Western outlets sanitise the U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iran. Perpetrator naming, coverage gaps for civilian strikes, and language analysis across 500+ collections.
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