What we do
Balanced UK NEWS helps UK readers escape single-source news bubbles. Instead of reading one outlet in isolation, you see how the same story is covered across the political spectrum — from BBC News and Sky News at the centre, through The Guardian and The Independent on the centre-left, to the Daily Mail on the right.
Our sources
- BBC NewsCentre / public service
- The GuardianCentre-left
- The IndependentCentre-left
- Daily MailRight / popular press
- Sky NewsCentre / broadcast
How clustering works
When outlets publish headlines about the same event, our clustering groups them using token overlap on normalised titles. Multi-outlet stories get a dedicated comparison page showing each publisher's headline and snippet side by side.
Categories
Frequently asked questions
- How does Balanced UK NEWS compare headlines?
- We fetch headlines and short snippets from official RSS feeds published by five major UK news outlets. Stories about the same event are grouped automatically using title similarity, then displayed side by side so you can compare framing across publishers.
- Which UK news sources are included?
- BBC News, The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Mail, and Sky News. Each outlet is labelled with its typical editorial lean to help readers understand perspective.
- How is political lean determined?
- Lean labels reflect widely cited UK media bias frameworks: BBC News and Sky News as centre, The Guardian and The Independent as centre-left, and Daily Mail as right / popular press. These are editorial context labels, not ratings of individual articles.
- Do you store full article text?
- No. We show only headlines and short RSS snippets, with links to the original publisher. We do not scrape or republish full article bodies.
- How often is the site updated?
- Feeds are refreshed every 30 minutes. Category pages and story comparisons reflect the latest available RSS headlines.
- What is the Daily Update?
- The Daily Update is the home briefing: a short per-category Daily Summary for the last 24 hours, followed by longer category briefings. Past days are available as dated archive pages when a snapshot has been saved.