Thomas Mackintosh

September 2, 2025

The ten-month-long story of a complaint to the BBC

Over a year ago we discussed a BBC News website report about an early morning strike on the former a...

August 12, 2025

BBC News avoids the full background to Hamas ‘disarmament’ story

On August 2nd the BBC News website published a report by Thomas Mackintosh headlined “Hamas refuse...

August 1, 2025

BBC does ‘rinse and repeat’ framing of Gaza aid airdrops

On the afternoon of July 25th COGAT announced the resumption of airdrops of humanitarian aid into th...

July 1, 2025

What was the focus of BBC reporting on the Gaza Strip in June 2025?

In early June we documented the BBC’s extensive reporting of a story that had not actually happene...

June 29, 2025

BBC partly corrects misrepresentation of number of hostages

Last week we documented a BBC News website report which misrepresented the number of hostages still ...

June 25, 2025

Omission and inaccuracy in BBC report on recovery of hostages’ bodies

June 22nd saw the appearance of a BBC News website report which currently goes under the headline �...

December 29, 2024

Priorities in BBC coverage of Israeli strikes on Houthi targets

On the afternoon of December 26th the BBC News website published reports concerning Israeli attacks ...

October 13, 2024

BBC News website documentation of weapons in southern Lebanon

As readers may have already noticed, the BBC’s abundant coverage of events in Lebanon during the p...

September 12, 2024

BBC News promotes unverified Hamas supplied casualty toll

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page early on the morning of September 10th w...

August 12, 2024

The sources behind another BBC “targeting schools” report

On August 10th the BBC News website published an uncredited report under the headline “Dozens repo...