Glasgow Times media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Glasgow Times in the centre. We have seen it on 16 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Glasgow Times biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Glasgow Times in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Glasgow Times left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Glasgow Times in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Glasgow Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Glasgow Times are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Glasgow Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Glasgow Times’s own report linked underneath.
A former police officer, Derek McNee, has been jailed for rape and abuse against two women. He drugged one victim before raping her on multiple occasions and was also found with a stun gun. Reports differ on the length of his sentence.
Glasgow Times reported it asEx-police officer who filmed himself raping sleeping woman JAILED (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
King Charles III has arrived in Guyana, the second stop on his nine-day Caribbean tour. The visit coincides with the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the UK and Guyana and renewed calls for Britain to apologise for its role in the slave trade.
Glasgow Times reported it asCharles visits execution site of 1823 uprising against slavery (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
Glasgow Times reported it asLegendary Star Trek and X-Men actor Patrick Stewart dies aged 86 (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Scotland's bus services are to be brought under public control by 2031, First Minister John Swinney announced. Legislation will be introduced next year, a move that has drawn strong criticism from bus operators. Swinney also unveiled a £30 million fund to tackle racism.
Glasgow Times reported it asJohn Swinney launches fund to fight the far right in Scotland (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new press secretary, has stated she is a lawyer. An investigation found no record of her being licensed to practice law in any US state or Washington D.C. She told reporters she passed the bar exam when she moved to China.
Glasgow Times reported it asNew White House press secretary defends legal background and short briefing (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told world leaders at the UN General Assembly that attacking Iran was an easy decision. Delegates walked out during his speech, prompting Netanyahu to call them 'moral cowards'. He also accused Turkey of spreading antisemitic lies and thanked Donald Trump.
Glasgow Times reported it asNetanyahu says attacking Iran ‘one of easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make’ (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been in office for two months, opening the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. He faces decisions on North Sea oil drilling and an upcoming budget, while promising to move beyond a decade of political turmoil.
Glasgow Times reported it asOasis fans reveal why they deserve tickets after scams, heartbreak and heart attacks (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour has seen all supporting artists withdraw after the removal of rapper Macklemore. Macklemore was reportedly dropped due to his pro-Palestine stance. Greta Thunberg and Shane MacGowan's widow have commented on the situation.
Glasgow Times reported it asEd Sheeran admits ‘mistakes’ at first concert since Macklemore tour row (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Michael Marra has been named the new leader of Scottish Labour, succeeding Anas Sarwar. He defeated Joe Fagan in the leadership contest. Scottish Labour currently holds 17 seats in the Holyrood parliament.
Glasgow Times reported it asMichael Marra elected as new Scottish Labour leader (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
The Anak Krakatau volcano erupted on September 4-5, 2026, with an ash column observed by satellite. Loud booms were heard up to 150km away, and Indonesian authorities placed the volcano under Alert Level III, prohibiting access within a 3km radius.
Glasgow Times reported it asBrits warned to avoid all travel to parts of Indonesia as volcano erupts (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
Glasgow Times reported it asBrits warned to avoid all travel to parts of Indonesia as volcano erupts (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Anas Sarwar, who led Scottish Labour until July 2024, resigned from Holyrood to take a seat in the House of Lords and a post as UK trade minister. He was sworn in on 12 September, wearing traditional robes and taking the title Baron Sarwar of Maxwell Park. His appointment drew criticism from Scotland’s first minister.
Glasgow Times reported it asFormer Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar takes House of Lords seat (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
BBC Scotland journalist Elizabeth Quigley, wife of First Minister John Swinney, has resigned from her role on health grounds. She cited trigeminal neuralgia, a condition causing facial pain, alongside her existing diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
Glasgow Times reported it asJohn Swinney's wife resigns from BBC amid 'excruciating pain' from illness (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
Glasgow Times reported it asHeroes and Nashville actress Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36 (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak between 12 and 13 August 2026, with up to 100 meteors per hour visible. A partial solar eclipse will occur on 12 August, offering a rare dual celestial event. Outlets varied in emphasis on timing, visibility, and the eclipse's coincidence.
Glasgow Times reported it asPerseid meteor shower peaks tonight over Glasgow - when and how to see it (opens Glasgow Times in a new tab)
Anas Sarwar said leading Scottish Labour was harder than leading the UK Labour Party in opposition, during his first public appearance since resigning as an MSP. He urged the three candidates vying to replace him to avoid infighting, as Labour recorded its worst Scottish Parliament result since 2003.
Glasgow Times reported it asAnas Sarwar says being leader of Scottish Labour is hardest job in British politics (opens Glasgow Times 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
Who owns it
- Newsquestunknowndirect owner
- GannettMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Official site
- glasgowtimes.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- glasgowtimes.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
- 16
- Reports listed
- 16
- We could read
- 2
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
14 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 2 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Glasgow Times is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 16 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Glasgow Times: its report arrived a median of 15 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 November 2026. Ratings pulled 6 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Glasgow Times, 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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