At HEqual we’ve previously written extensively on the BBC’s refusal to report on false rape accusations that result in the suicide of the victim. The BBC has still never directly reported on a single such case, only finally reporting the suicide of Jay Cheshire indirectly after his own mother took her own life a year…

On Wednesday we reported on fake news reports on the election “defeat” of Philip Davies MP. The pro-equality politician actually held his seat with a record share of the vote, but that didn’t stop the likes of Michael Crick and Helena Horton seizing on rumours of his defeat and reporting them as fact, thus exposing…

One of the more notable aspects of the recent UK election was the campaign in the Shipley constituency, a seat held by Philip Davies since 2005. In addition to rivals from Labour and the Lib Dems, Davies was challenged by Sophie Walker, leader of the Women’s Equality Party due to his supposed “misogyny”. The WEP’s…

Readers of HEqual may remember an article from last year where we exposed some of the BBC’s lies about Philip Davies MP. On that occasion, the organisation morphed his criticism of feminists into criticism of women as a whole, thus turning reality on its head and smearing him as a sexist rather than an opponent…

On 12 February 2016, the  BBC published an article with the ridiculous headline “Women write better code, study suggests“. This claim was a BBC exaggeration of an already questionable study, based on pull requests to Git Hub, a site which doesn’t even mention the gender of its users. The non peer-reviewed paper and the BBC’s…

On Wednesday we highlighted a number of significant biases in the BBC’s treatment of Philip Davies, seemingly in retaliation for his election to the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee. The BBC’s misconduct included an article containing various lies and misinformation including: A misleading click-bait headline which transformed the Women and Equality Committee into…

The BBC have just published their report on the fantastic and groundbreaking news of Philip Davies’ election to the Women and Equalities Committee and it’s exactly what you’d expect from what is now essentially a feminist-activist organisation. In places, the article is actually quite balanced by BBC standards, though it contains outright lies and the…