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
ScotlandScottishConservativeMotherwellNew College Lanarkshire’sSNPWalesthe House of Commons
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 +0.01
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Andy Burnham was in Scotland at the same time as the SNP was holding its annual conference in Aberdeen
During a question and answer session with the press after his speech, Mr Burnham was asked whether he would rule out a second Scottish independence referendum for the duration of his premiership. 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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