👤 Alasdair Pal

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-09-15 – 2026-10-09
Claims per article
16
32 extracted in total
Hedged claims
12%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
2,740
characters
Writes for The Independent.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
100%
Most-tagged topics
ArmyAustraliaAustralianCanadaNew ZealandOttawaPentagonTexas

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.19 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-09 · The Independent · Politics
Countries around the world consider blocking livestream of US execution
32 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-15 · The Independent · Politics
Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-15 · The Independent
Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU
🔮 "We will take great interest in what Carney does." assertive
2026-10-09 · The Independent
Countries around the world consider blocking livestream of US execution
🔮 On Thursday, the Pentagon said that Hasan's execution by firing squad in Texas would be streamed live, in what would be an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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