Bristol Post media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Bristol Post in the centre. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Bristol Post biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Bristol Post in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Bristol Post left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Bristol Post in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Bristol Post reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Bristol Post are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Bristol Post has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Bristol Post’s own report linked underneath.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a former neo-Nazi with convictions for assault, burglary, and racially aggravated harassment, will stand as a Conservative candidate in Somerset’s local elections on 6 May 2027. Party leader Kemi Badenoch defended his selection, citing his rehabilitation and counter-extremism work.
Bristol Post reported it asFormer neo-Nazi to stand for Conservatives in Somerset local elections (opens Bristol Post in a new tab)
Conservatives select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as council candidate despite far-right convictions
Trust 62The Conservative Party has selected Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a former neo-Nazi convicted of racially aggravated harassment and malicious communications, as a candidate for Somerset Council. Party leader Kemi Badenoch defended the decision, citing his rehabilitation and Home Office certification to train police on antisemitism.
Bristol Post reported it asFormer neo-Nazi to stand for Conservatives in Somerset local elections (opens Bristol Post in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Reach plcMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- bristolpost.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- bristolpost.co.uk
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 2
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Bristol Post is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Bristol Post’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 11 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 11 August 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Bristol Post, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Bristol Post publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.