The Times media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 16 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; 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 The Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Times are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Times’s own report linked underneath.
President Donald Trump was photographed on Air Force One looking at a poster that appeared to read 'Kennedy Center DEMOLIS[HED]'. The image emerged as the Kennedy Center has been surrounded by fencing and amid a court examination of its controversial closure.
The Times reported it asTrump examines ‘plan to demolish Kennedy Center’ (opens The Times in a new tab)
The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points, marking the first such increase in over three years. The unanimous decision aims to combat inflation, and was followed by a significant drop in gold prices.
The Times reported it asVerifying Device (opens The Times in a new tab)
OpenAI has announced that an internal AI model has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems. The company claims approximately 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours. However, mathematicians have expressed skepticism due to the lack of a publicly disclosed proof.
The Times reported it asOpenAI’s $1m maths breakthrough claim engulfed by plagiarism row (opens The Times in a new tab)
Jamaica is to file a petition with King Charles III seeking legal guidance on slavery reparations. The petition asks the King to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council concerning the legality of slavery and the UK's obligation. The delegation will also discuss the repatriation of cultural artefacts.
The Times reported it asJamaica to push King Charles for answers on slavery reparations (opens The Times in a new tab)
OpenAI's chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, has warned that no one is prepared for the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. He expressed concerns about AI systems becoming difficult to understand and control, and the potential for autonomous AI agents to cause harm.
The Times reported it asThe world has no plan for dealing with AI if it threatens humanity (opens The Times in a new tab)
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband claimed medicines were being blocked from Gaza, leading to child deaths. Israel's Foreign Ministry denied this, stating ample supplies entered. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee accused the UK government of anti-Semitism in response.
The Times reported it asUS envoy accuses Britain of ‘Jew hate’ over Ed Miliband remarks (opens The Times in a new tab)
The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter-long embroidery from the 11th century, has arrived in London for an exhibition at the British Museum. Tickets have sold out for months, with the museum anticipating one million visitors before the exhibition closes in July 2027. The tapestry depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
The Times reported it asBritish Museum boss: I hope Bayeux sets a precedent for the Elgin Marbles (opens The Times 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.
The Times reported it asSadiq Khan’s messages to be searched in Palantir legal row (opens The Times in a new tab)
French President Emmanuel Macron is in London to view the Bayeux Tapestry with King Charles III and meet UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham. They will discuss migration, the Russia-Ukraine war, and UK-EU relations. The tapestry is on loan from France for a 10-month exhibition.
The Times reported it asKing Charles and Macron praise Bayeux Tapestry: ‘Hope becomes reality’ (opens The Times in a new tab)
A Luger pistol recovered from Lake Annecy on 20 August 2026 is being analysed by French authorities. The weapon may be linked to the 2012 Chevaline killings, which claimed the lives of a British-Iraqi family and a French cyclist.
The Times reported it asPistol found in Lake Annecy offers hope in al-Hilli murders cold case (opens The Times in a new tab)
Democratic-controlled states have filed a new lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to limit mail voting in the midterm elections. The suit targets new U.S. Postal Service rules that require federal approval for mail ballot envelope designs and a list of eligible voters.
The Times reported it asStatus of Washington's mail-in voting left unsettled after Supreme Court ruling (opens The Times in a new tab)
Prime Minister Andy Burnham is reportedly considering a ban on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The move has drawn opposition from Labour Friends of Israel and warnings from UK Lawyers for Israel about potential breaches of international agreements.
The Times reported it asVerifying Device (opens The Times in a new tab)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years in the US, but will not resume their roles as working royals. Their children will attend British schools from September, and King Charles III was informed of the decision on 16 August 2026.
The Times reported it asPrince Harry wants to return to the UK ‘every few months’ (opens The Times in a new tab)
Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the UK as the 'Islamic Republic of Britain' during an Israeli military radio podcast, suggesting it could become the first nuclear-armed Islamic state. The comment, echoing a 2024 remark by US Vice President JD Vance, sparked backlash from British Jewish groups and politicians amid strained UK-Israel relations.
The Times reported it asNetanyahu brands UK the ‘Islamic Republic of Britain’ (opens The Times in a new tab)
Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s $1bn 'Future is for Everyone Fund' to support communities hosting data centres, alongside plans to offer free AI tools to billions. The essay also outlined a vision for personal AI agents and open-source models, while addressing concerns about job displacement and privacy.
The Times reported it asDon’t be fooled by Mark Zuckerberg’s stance on AI (opens The Times in a new tab)
Scientists at the Arc Institute in California used an AI model named Evo to design 16 new bacteriophages capable of infecting E. coli. The study, published in Science, excluded human pathogen datasets, ensuring the viruses cannot infect people. Experts warn of biosecurity risks despite potential medical applications.
The Times reported it asWorld’s first AI-designed viruses raise hopes (opens The Times in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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
- News UKunknowndirect owner
- News CorpMedia Conglomerateparent group
- Murdoch familyMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- thetimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- thetimes.com, waitsburgtimes.com
- Access
- Paywalled
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
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
16 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. The 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 The Times: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The 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.
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 The Times 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.