Ben de Pear argues that the BBC’s coverage of Gaza revealed a culture of fear and over-management that prioritised reputation over truth. Its reluctance to show civilian suffering, he says, turned impartiality into evasion. With a ceasefire now in place, he urges the corporation to reckon honestly with its failures—before they become its legacy.

Patrick Howse’s poem NBH offers up a reflection on how the experience of witnessing war endures long after leaving the battlefield.

A major new analysis by the Centre for Media Monitoring accuses the BBC of institutional bias in its reporting on the Israel-Gaza war, alleging disproportionate focus on Israeli suffering, the marginalisation of Palestinian voices, and editorial decisions shaped by fear of pro-Israel lobbying.

Jeremy Bowen’s Geneva dispatch highlights the BBC’s struggle to navigate Israeli narrative control, the blockade on Gaza’s truths, and its own editorial caution.

The BBC is under fire for indefinitely delaying the broadcast of Gaza: Medics Under Fire, a documentary detailing attacks on Palestinian healthcare workers, with critics accusing the broadcaster of political censorship and double standards.

Dr Ieva Jusionyte, a legal and medical anthropologist at Brown University, discusses her book “Exit Wounds,” which explores how the smuggling of guns from the United States to Mexico contributes to violence and the migrant crisis, drawing on extensive research and fieldwork at the US-Mexico border.

Russia’s military casualties in Ukraine have surpassed 50,000, as the Kremlin persists with its high-casualty “meat grinder” tactics, according to a BBC and Mediazona report.

Twelve people were killed this morning when mortars fell on a school in the Syrian capital Damascus. Two mortar rounds struck the Badr al-Din al-Hussein technical institute, whose students are as young as 14. At this early stage it is not known if students are among the number of casualties, which is thought to include […]

Zeina Khodr is a roving correspondent for Al Jazeera who focuses on the Arab world, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Khodr has worked in the news industry for over 15 years, including posts at Al Jazeera’s online and Arabic language services, MBC, Emirates Dubai Television, the BBC’s World Service and CNN. Her reporting on the fall […]

Wojciech Jagielski is a Polish author primarily affiliated with Gazeta Wyborcza, although he has also contributed to the BBC, Le Monde, the Polish Press Agency and others. His specialities include Africa, Central Asia, the Trans-Caucasus and the Caucasus. He has written a number of books on the wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Africa. His awards […]

Tim Franks presents Newshour and Hardtalk on the BBC. Previously, he served as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. Franks was an embedded reporter with British forces in Iraq in 2003, and thereafter became Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem and reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite being moved into a presenter role, he […]

Sue Lloyd Roberts CBE is a television journalist who has worked with ITN, Channel 4 News and Channel 4 documentaries before joining the BBC as a Special Correspondent. She has reported extensively for Newsnight, including reports from Homs in Syria and from inside North Korea. Her investigative reporting has won her a string of awards, […]