Imagine a world where the packet of sausages you buy at the supermarket is held to a stricter standard of truth than the political leaflets, social media posts, and broadcast adverts that shape the future of your country. That is not a hypothetical. That is the strange, uncomfortable reality of British democracy today. In the wake of Andy Burnham’s sharp remarks about Russian interference in the Brexit referendum, and MI5 chief Ken McCallum’s measured warning against exaggerating Moscow’s impact, a crucial piece of the puzzle has been left out of the conversation. We spend so much time staring at foreign…

In financial journalism, it is all too easy to forget that the numbers moving across a screen represent something far more human than abstract digits. They represent a family deciding whether to buy a home, a small business owner calculating whether to hire another worker, a retiree watching the value of savings rise or fall. When a journalist writes about inflation, exchange rates, or a central bank’s policy rate, they are not merely describing the economy; they are helping real people understand the forces that shape their daily lives. That is why ethics in financial journalism is not a bureaucratic…