Canvassing to empty houses: knocking on doors in the smart doorbell era

Campaigning door-to-door is nothing new, but selling your party’s vision in the UK election to someone when you can’t see them can be a mixed blessing

Strike: An Uncivil War review – brutal confrontation on the miners’ strike picket lines

Former miners and police officers recall Orgreave, one of the nastiest events in postwar British history, in Daniel Gordon’s forthright documentary

‘People aren’t so impressed by big names’: is the era of celebrity political endorsement over?

A-listers queued up to add showbiz pizzaz before elections. Today, it’s seen as more effective for a member of the public speak out

Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’

Britain’s Forgotten Prisoners is a devastating documentary about the ‘public protection’ sentences that can amount to whole-of-life terms for relatively minor offences. Film-maker Martin Read explains his seven-year quest for justice

Deepfakes are here and can be dangerous, but ignore the alarmists – they won’t harm our elections

Although we can’t be complacent about digital interference in our democracy, this new wave of hysteria is not the answer, says Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre

Brighton general election candidate aims to be UK’s first ‘AI MP’

Steve Endacott claims his artificial intelligence-produced avatar would answer constituents’ questions and concerns

Talkshows, TikTok, Gaza: George Galloway and Rochdale, 100 days on

Since he was elected as the town’s MP, the Workers party leader has grown his huge online audience, but now faces a tough election battle with Labour

‘Crank’ Tory candidates accused of sharing online conspiracy theories

Labour has expressed concerns about the calibre of would-be Tory MPs after a some shared outlandish views online

‘Almost everyone supports Labour’: why 2024 isn’t the TikTok election

Users are 31% more likely to vote left than people of the same age and background who do not use it, poll finds

Scandinavia ‘way ahead’ of UK in telecoms infrastructure, says BT boss

Allison Kirkby points to regulatory and planning environment as well as digital skills and services

Why Facebook won’t be influential in the UK general election

In this week’s newsletter: All-powerful ‘microtargeting’ swaying the masses into voting a certain way was always overblown, but these days social media has moved on – and so have the parties

Tories pursuing ‘ostrich strategy’ on Facebook campaign ads

Party is focusing on 80 seats it came closest to losing in last election and 20 seats it came closest to winning

‘The first TikTok election’: are Sunak and Starmer’s digital campaigns winning over voters?

The Tories and Labour are forking out more than ever on social media ads, but going viral isn’t easy. We speak to influencers and strategists about the messages and memes

Labour is already dominating the online general election campaign

Starmer’s party was quicker out of the digital gate, with slicker, more engaging content than the Tory offering, writes Matthew McGregor

Next UK government should introduce scams legislation, says City lobby group

Group wants big tech social media firms to pay millions a year to reimburse customers after years of shouldering cost of fraud