Bill Curtis Journalist
My name is Bill. I’m a freelance journalist and owner of BC Media, specialising in home affairs, UK politics, and investigations. I also write a regular column for the Metro newspaper!
My work frequently appears in the Daily Telegraph, The Times, Sun, Private Eye, Independent, Middle East Eye, Computer Weekly, Big Issue, Joe, The London Economic, Jewish Chronicle, London Standard, Schools Week, FE Week, Yahoo, Politics UK, Sunday Telegraph, and Manchester Evening News, among others.
In print, digital, TV and radio platforms.
About BC Media
Founded in May 2023 to give my freelance work a stronger identity, BC Media sells and produces agenda-setting news.
It specialises in exclusive home affairs investigations, with a reputation for well-sourced and highly credible stories in print and online.
Exclusives
Here are a handful of my exclusive stories. Click on the image to view the full article. Head over to my X (Twitter) to see the latest.
It Just Doesn’t Add Up | The Sun
ILLEGAL migrants awaiting deportation are given private maths tutors.
A Sun investigation uncovered a raft of removal centre perks, along with dedicated on-call GPs.
What A Waste of Monet | The Sun
ILLEGAL migrants awaiting deportation from Britain are getting free arts and craft classes, IT tutorials and English lessons.
The perks must be offered under the terms of a £260million contract to run removal centres at Gatwick Airport.
Fury as ‘gutless’ BBC bosses FAIL to recoup disgraced Huw Edwards’ £200k salary despite huge job cuts at corporation | The Sun
After a Sun probe, using freedom of information laws, the broadcaster said: “Huw Edwards has not returned any money paid to him by the BBC after his arrest”.
Robert Jenrick says he’s a ‘great admirer’ of a popular far-right X account | The London Economic
In leaked messages seen exclusively by The London Economic, Robert Jenrick has said he is a “great admirer” of Inevitable West, a far-right X account with over 120,000 followers.
The Muslim Council of Britain and the Labour Muslim Network called on him to resign. Jenrick refused to comment.
Privates on parade | Private Eye
Women in the British Army are dealing with an onslaught of sexual harassment, including predatory behaviour from superior officers, sexual assaults and “nocturnal doorknocking” from fellow soldiers in mixed barracks, yet another report confirms.
It was followed up on a Telegraph splash
Thousands of retired teachers wait for promised pension payments
| Schools Week
Just two of the thousands of retired teachers who could be due compensation after a landmark pensions court ruling on age discrimination seven years ago have received the money so far.
Thousands of retired teachers die before pensions row settled | Schools Week
New data reveals the scale of the backlog in remedy cases facing the Teachers’ Pension Scheme’s embattled administrators Capita
Met recognition cameras catch 50,000 faces a day | Telegraph
Vans repeatedly deployed outside Tube stations as police ramp up use of technology to ‘drive up arrests’
US states told: Follow UK guidance on trans children | Daily Telegraph
The US government is pressuring states to halt funding for puberty blockers for children and follow the UK’s Cass Review, a letter seen by The Telegraph reveals.
Racist memes and Nazi graphics: Suge in online Jew-hatred linked to new TikTok tool | The Jewish Chronicle
TikTok is facing mounting criticism after a Jewish Chronicle investigation revealed a troubling rise in antisemitic content linked to the platform’s new image comment feature.
Leading antisemitism organisations have urged the social media giant to put the initiative under review and implement greater measures to protect users.
Hundreds of Met Police officers get Tasers after deadly Hainault sword rampage | Evening Standard
Some 500 hundred officers were given tasers.
After Daniel’s killing, several reviews were carried out around officer safety, training and post-incident care, the Standard can reveal.
Andy Burnham attacks Trump for ‘bringing instability to the world’ | Daily Telegraph
The Greater Manchester mayor breaks with Keir Starmer as he likens the US president’s return to power to Liz Truss’s premiership.
The criticism comes just days before Sir Keir meets the US president in Washington DC.
Post Office slammed after deleting social media comments on IT scandal | Computer Weekly
Sir Alan Bates has been leading the backlash against the Post Office for deleting and blocking social media comments about compensation concerns for subpostmasters in the Horizon IT scandal.
Andy Burnham: ‘Right to Buy scheme means homelessness will get worse before it gets better’ | Big Issue
Burnham has urged Keir Starmer to reform the Right to Buy scheme as he says people are struggling to get off the streets due to “the grip of the housing crisis getting tighter every year”.
Rupert Lowe ‘offered to fund’ anti-Farage candidate in Runcorn by-election | The London Economic
The ousted Reform MP shared plans to donate up to £1,000 to the hard-right English Democrat candidate Catherine Blaiklock, sources have said.
“Rupert Lowe has spoken with Catherine Blaiklock and her local team in Runcorn and Helsby to discuss a donation from £500 to £1,000.”
Corrie stars warn Keir Starmer’s disability cuts could fuel homelessness | The London Economic
Coronation Street stars have joined fellow celebs to warn Keir Starmer’s disability cuts could fuel homelessness as the government has formally announced long-awaited plans to reduce the size of the welfare state.
Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform this summer | Joe
Britain is just months away from getting a platform similar to Donald Trump’s Truth Social.
The story was followed up by all major newspapers and digital outlets, such as the Telegraph, Times, Star, Guardian, BBC, LBC, Spectator, New Statesmen, LBC, and HuffPost, among others.
Mel Stride says migration should match housing supply | Politics UK
Conservative Party leadership candidate Mel Stride wants to ensure migration levels correspond to housing availability to sustainably manage pressure on infrastructure.
Disabled activists raise concerns over proposed assisted dying bill | Politics UK
Disability activists have demanded MPs to choose “assistance to live before assistance to die” ahead of a historic free vote in the House of Commons later this month.
Labour MP Stella Creasy calls for abortion to be human right after Farage comments | The London Economic
Creasy has accused the Reform UK leader of “importing Donald Trump’s politics about women” into Britain.
Nigel Farage slammed for skipping major Brexit reset debate as he’s on holiday ‘in France’ | The London Economic
Many East of England MPs and Clacton Labour are furious that Nigel Farage has “prioritised a holiday over representing the people of Clacton” despite recess being less than a week away.
Tories write to Kemi Badenoch demanding resignation | The London Economic
Many Conservative figures have signed an open letter circulating among Tory groups calling for “fresh blood” instead of Kemi Badenoch “allowing Reform to take our space”.
Biologists tell government to restore trans people’s access to public spaces after Supreme Court ruling | The London Economic
Dozens of biologists and doctors have told Keir Starmer to restore transgender people’s access to public spaces after the landmark Supreme Court ruling.
More Labour MPs increase pressure on Keir Starmer to tax wealth over disability cuts amid rebellion fears | The London Economic
Instead, a new wave of furious Labour MPs from all wings of the party are set to urge the prime minister to implement a wealth tax.
Tories accused of hypocrisy as frontbencher accepts Cheltenham ticket freebies | The London Economic
Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins accepted two tickets worth an eye-watering £450.
Inside the Labour machine vying to oust Farage | The London Economic
Labour’s broad church has united in an attempt to keep Nigel Farage far away from Downing Street by fighting his party on the NHS and Ukraine while silently mimicking them on migration.
Reform MP Rupert Lowe earns nearly £1,000 an hour for tweeting | The London Economic
The MP for Great Yarmouth’s register of interests shows that he earned a whopping £4,699 in January by spending five hours posting on Elon Musk’s social media platform.
Nigel Farage recruits Tucker Carlson’s nephew to Reform UK | The London Economic
Charles Carlson will work alongside Archie Manners, a YouTube prankster with 1.5 million subscribers.
Pro-Jenrick Tory activists launch ‘anti-Badenoch’ discussion forum called ‘Blue Monday’ | The London Economic
The group has been condemned as an “anti-Kemi alliance waiting to stir up drama”.
Metro columns by Bill Curtis.
Read them all on Metro.co.uk
MPs being landlords would be comical if it wasn’t so offensive | Metro
There we have it, folks. The homelessness minister has resigned – not for failing to fix the housing crisis, but for becoming the poster girl of everything wrong with it.
Rushanara Ali quit last night after it was reported that she evicted tenants from her east London townhouse and then, within weeks, re-listed it for rent for an extra £700 a month.
Votes at 16 is a classic Labour policy – for all the wrong reasons | Metro
Votes at 16 is not a bad policy. But it’s not a silver bullet either. Not when you’ve got Nigel Farage playing the anti-politics game better than anyone and making young people think he’s one of them.
Labour can’t afford to underestimate him. Again.
Starmer should give Trump a warm welcome – then a £14m bill | Metro
Donald Trump jets into Scotland today on a visit which is ‘private’, according to White House officials.
Yet despite that label, he nonetheless intends to make you – the British taxpayer – foot an expected £14million bill.
So here’s my suggestion: Starmer should shake the man’s hand and then pass on the invoice.
Robert Jenrick has a point but he has no business making it | Metro
“If Robert Jenrick really had a concern about crime, he wouldn’t be making videos. He’d be issuing apologies.”
I don’t want to see David Walliams on TV again after Nazi salutes | Metro
It’s not a witch hunt or social media outrage-driven over response. It’s a call for standards – ones that I believe Walliams has repeatedly fallen short of.
By continuing to grant him airtime, broadcasters send the message that his behaviour is acceptable as long as the perpetrator is a big enough name.
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