👤 Mark Nicol

19 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
19
2026-08-26 – 2026-10-16
Claims per article
31
584 extracted in total
Hedged claims
10%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,513
characters · 1 tagged analysis
Writes for Daily Mail.
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
84%
Crime & Law
5%
Technology
5%
World
5%
Most-tagged topics
BritainRussiaRussianUkraineLabourNatoRAFBritish

Leaning

+0.40 average ± 0.20 · +0.35 median · 10 scored articles
Sits to the right of their own outlet, which averages +0.03 — the whole interval clears it. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-27 · Daily Mail · Politics
'Iran bomb plot' at RAF base foiled by farmer's 999 call: Five arrested in early hours after three vans spotted near air base used by US bombers
29 outlets covered this event
2026-09-05 · Daily Mail · Politics
Is this why Argentina is suddenly interested? Falkland Islands are set to cash in £4billion from new oil field
11 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-05 · Daily Mail · Politics
Falklands War hero Simon Weston dismisses Javier Milei's 'ridiculous' threat to retake the islands
11 outlets covered this event
2026-09-30 · Daily Mail · Politics
Are you watching Streeting? Putin's war chest to rise to record 35% of state budget by next year as he slashes welfare, education and healthcare to fund 17.1trillion ruble (£154bn) military
6 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-08-26 · Daily Mail · Politics
Andy Burnham is warned that Britain faces impending Russian 'attack' over its support for Ukraine
6 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-10-06 · Daily Mail · Politics
Tories' 'iron dome' proposal gets a vote of approval... from a Labour peer
4 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-08-26 · Daily Mail
Andy Burnham is warned that Britain faces impending Russian 'attack' over its support for Ukraine
🔮 If he chooses, Putin could order attacks that would cause chaos... and serious loss of life mixed
2026-09-05 · Daily Mail
Falklands War hero Simon Weston dismisses Javier Milei's 'ridiculous' threat to retake the islands
🔮 But the veteran rubbished prospects that Argentina could retake the islands. mixed
2026-09-05 · Daily Mail
Is this why Argentina is suddenly interested? Falkland Islands are set to cash in £4billion from new oil field
🔮 - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source The Falkland Islands are set to cash in £4billion from oil reserves buried beneath the Atlantic, as Argentina ramps up its claim over the territory. mixed
2026-09-15 · Daily Mail
Ben Wallace: It's time for Britain to shoot down Putin's drones
🔮 Peter Zalmayev, Fellow at The Aspen Institute Kyiv, added: 'The West needs to stop being submissive. assertive
2026-09-16 · Daily Mail
Rebuild the Navy or we are all sunk: UK must strengthen its war-fighting readiness or face defeat to Russia, force's First Sea Lord warns
🔮 In May this year, we revealed how the frigate fleet has been reduced to just five after the retirement of HMS Iron Duke. assertive
2026-09-18 · Daily Mail
'Blasé' Andy Burnham is urged to wake up to Putin's 'plans to attack Europe' amid concerns warning signs are being missed
🔮 On present projections, the earliest the UK is expected to reach the Nato defence spending target of 3.5 per cent is 2035. assertive
2026-09-23 · Daily Mail
Head of UK's space force is suspended amid investigation into alleged serious sexual offence
🔮 - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source The head of the UK’s military operations in space has been suspended amid an investigation into an alleged serious sexual offence and a claim of theft. Air Vice-Marshal Jamie Thompson was appointed to the key role in June – only to be suspended two months later. His position commanded a salary of more than £110,000 a year. Behaviour requirements for those in the military are set out in the Armed Forces Code of Social Conduct. The code prohibits unwelcome sexual attention, physical or verbal and any displays of affection that might cause offence. The allegations are still being explored by detectives. assertive
2026-09-23 · Daily Mail
Russian aggression in space could wipe out our SAT-NAV and GPS systems - costing UK economy £1.4billion a day, warns Chief of the Air Staff
🔮 - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Russian aggression in space could wipe out our SAT-NAV and GPS systems, costing lives and causing billions of pounds of damage, the head of the RAF has warned. assertive
2026-09-27 · Daily Mail
'Iran bomb plot' at RAF base foiled by farmer's 999 call: Five arrested in early hours after three vans spotted near air base used by US bombers
🔮 Police evacuated 85 households around the base, which is the US Air Force's command outpost for Europe, fearing the three vehicles loaded with barrels of suspicious material could explode. assertive
2026-09-28 · Daily Mail
Wes Streeting warns activists NOT to oppose boost to defence spending
🔮 T he UK must reach 3.5 per cent by 2035 to meet NATO's deadline and the Government is expected to soon set out a pathway to reach this amount. assertive
2026-09-30 · Daily Mail
Are you watching Streeting? Putin's war chest to rise to record 35% of state budget by next year as he slashes welfare, education and healthcare to fund 17.1trillion ruble (£154bn) military
🔮 The Russian President, whose invasion of Ukraine has already caused 1.5 million casualties on his own side, could use the war chest to attack Britain. assertive
2026-10-03 · Daily Mail
SAS on secret revenge mission hunted down and killed two of Iran-backed gang who murdered British troops in Iraq
🔮 The details of their deaths have not been disclosed, but sources also revealed that the SAS would have taken down more, had they not been stopped by UK top brass. assertive
2026-10-06 · Daily Mail
Kemi Badenoch blames US Fairford bomber pullout on UK's lack of missile and drone defences as she vows to spend £10bn on 'Britannia Shield'
🔮 The Tories say it is needed because Labour – which has still not set out how it will reach its target of spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030 – is failing to do enough to guarantee the security of the UK, its overseas territories and bases in an increasingly hostile world. assertive
2026-10-06 · Daily Mail
Tories' 'iron dome' proposal gets a vote of approval... from a Labour peer
🔮 While defence spending has risen since the last election - from 2.3 to 2.7 per cent of GDP - the Government has failed to set out how it will reach targets such as 3 per cent of GDP by 2030 and the essential Nato benchmark of 3.5 per cent by 2035. assertive
2026-10-09 · Daily Mail
How Whitehall penpushers obsessed with human rights stabbed the SAS in the back in Afghanistan: MARK NICOL
🔮 Leading from the front, SAS officer Richard Williams and his assault team 'pepper-potted' uphill across 50 metres of open ground – one taking a knee and providing covering fire for the others to dash forward. assertive
2026-10-13 · Daily Mail
Red tape forced Royal Marine to test underwater drone in his own garden pond, Defence Secretary reveals
🔮 Mr Streeting had earlier announced that a defence investment summit, promised earlier this year as part of the Government’s defence investment plan, would take place on December 1. assertive
2026-10-15 · Daily Mail
Don't raise taxes, slash spending to fund forces, Burnham is warned
🔮 Less spending [will be] part of the new pressures that you will have from different sources.' assertive
2026-10-16 · Daily Mail
Britain faces a 'frank conversation' over 'sacrifices' needed to defend the nation, warns Army chief in wake up call to Labour
🔮 General Sir Roly Walker revealed how the UK responds to threats will be laid out in a ‘frank discussion’ between political leaders and citizens. assertive
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