LBC media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give LBC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is LBC biased?
The rating organisations do not give LBC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is LBC left or right?
The rating organisations do not give LBC one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is LBC reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for LBC are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What LBC has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with LBC’s own report linked underneath.
US President Donald Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping for a summit at the White House on September 24. The leaders are expected to discuss trade, rare earth supplies, and artificial intelligence. Xi's visit marks the first by a Chinese leader to the US presidential residence in over a decade.
LBC reported it asTrump media ban backfires as helipad opening footage left with inaudible sound after press boycott (opens LBC in a new tab)
UK households with at least one foreign national received a record £11.9 billion in Universal Credit in 2025. This represents a 25% increase from the previous year, with approximately £7.7 billion paid to those not working.
LBC reported it asHouseholds with migrants claim record £12bn in universal credit (opens LBC in a new tab)
Anti-migrant protesters and counter-demonstrators held rival rallies in Portsmouth. Police arrested one man in connection with a previous demonstration, while the Home Secretary met police to discuss far-right group activity.
LBC reported it asMan, 76, arrested over face covering at Portsmouth anti-immigration protest (opens LBC in a new tab)
Donald Trump has stated he could resolve any conflict over the Falkland Islands, calling a war between the UK and Argentina a "potential disaster." He suggested the UK might be unwilling to travel the distance to defend the islands, citing domestic issues.
LBC reported it as‘I’ll probably be able to settle’ Falklands dispute, says Donald Trump (opens LBC in a new tab)
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, according to exit polls. This marks the first time a far-right party has achieved such a result in modern German history, though it is unclear if the AfD can form a government alone.
LBC reported it asGermany's far-right AfD party on track for 'historic' state election win, exit poll shows (opens LBC in a new tab)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan's emails and text messages will be searched as part of a legal battle with Palantir over a blocked £50 million deal for artificial intelligence technology with the Metropolitan Police. A full court hearing is scheduled for January.
LBC reported it asSadiq Khan to hand over WhatsApp messages amid Palantir legal row over scrapped £50m Met contract (opens LBC in a new tab)
The United States has reportedly threatened to withdraw support for the UK's sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. This pressure tactic is reportedly aimed at compelling London to increase defence spending to meet NATO's 5% of GDP commitment.
LBC reported it asUS 'to threaten Britain over Falklands' if Burnham does not hike defence spending (opens LBC in a new tab)
A crash on the A66 involving a car driven the wrong way along a dual carriageway killed seven people, including two police officers. The government has called on TikTok to remove videos that appear to celebrate dangerous driving.
Ghent University suspended Nathan Cofnas, a researcher who accused the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday of plagiarism, after opening a disciplinary inquiry. Cofnas, who describes himself as a 'race realist', was previously dismissed from Cambridge in 2024. Arday died in mid-August amid the allegations.
LBC reported it asNathan Cofnas, academic at the centre of Jason Arday plagiarism row, suspended by Ghent University (opens LBC 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
- Global Media & EntertainmentMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- Ashley Tabor-KingBillionaireparent group
Where it publishes from
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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
8 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and LBC ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of LBC: its report arrived a median of 26 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 22 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as LBC, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where LBC 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.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.