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
ScotlandScottishCabinetIRANorthern IrelandSinn FeinThe SNP Governmentthe Scottish Government
Leaning
Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles;
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 +0.03
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Cuts to frontline services may be needed because plans to reduce the size of the public sector workforce have fallen ‘off course’, the Deputy First Minister has admitted. assertive
🔮 They believe that the First Minister for all of Scotland is not even willing to acknowledge what Sinn Fein has represented and in some ways continues to represent. 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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