Ground News
A friendly competitor and useful comparison service. It groups coverage from many publishers and adds source context. Aletheia News uses its own independent architecture and does not scrape Ground News.
Affiliate disclosure: some links may later become affiliate links. If a purchase is made through an affiliate link, Swindon.org.uk/Aletheia may receive a commission without increasing the price paid. At this version, Bookshop links below are ordinary links because no verified Aletheia Bookshop tracking ID has been inserted.
Read and compare news
BBC News
UK and international reporting, live coverage and specialist sections. Aletheia may use BBC RSS only in an appropriately configured personal instance; this page simply links to the BBC.
Times of India
A major English-language Indian news source with extensive India, world, technology, business, sport and city coverage. Aletheia links to TOI rather than republishing its restricted RSS feeds.
Reuters
Useful for identifying wire-report lineage and for international, business, technology and breaking-news reporting.
Associated Press
Another important wire and original-reporting source. Comparing AP with Reuters and local reporting can help expose whether many headlines share one reporting origin.
GDELT Project
Aletheia News uses GDELT as its broad discovery radar. The browser app queries it directly where possible, avoiding unnecessary Cloudflare Worker usage.
Go to the primary source
GOV.UK
Government announcements, consultations, reports and policy documents. Especially useful for checking what was actually published rather than relying only on a headline about it.
UK Parliament
Bills, committees, research briefings, debates and parliamentary material.
Full Fact
UK fact-checking organisation. Useful as one additional evidence source, especially when a disputed public claim already has a published check.
Bookshop: understanding news, evidence and misinformation
Bookshop.org UK has an official affiliate programme. Standard affiliates currently advertise a 10% commission. The links here are deliberately untracked until the real Aletheia/Swindon.org.uk affiliate link is available.
Calling Bullshit
Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West. Practical tools for questioning misleading statistics, graphs, hype and apparently impressive claims.
Living with Misinformation
Aimee Hourigan, Tanya Notley, T. J. Thomson, Sora Park & Michael Dezuanni. A 2026 media-literacy book drawing on a large research study of how adults encounter misinformation.
We Are Bellingcat
Eliot Higgins. Open-source investigation, verification and following digital evidence back toward its source.
News and How to Use It
Alan Rusbridger. A readable guide to how contemporary news works and how readers can navigate it.
The Elements of Journalism
Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel. A useful background text on verification, independence and the role of journalism.
Bookshop.org UK affiliate programme
For when the Aletheia/Swindon.org.uk Bookshop account is ready to add tracked links.
Christmas & Black Friday ideas
Ground News gift subscription
A one-year gift subscription can be sent to a recipient and does not automatically renew at the end of the gift period. Useful for a keen news reader who enjoys comparing coverage.
A media-literacy book bundle
Pair Calling Bullshit, We Are Bellingcat and a journalism/media-literacy title. Bookshop links above can later become the site's tracked affiliate links.
Affiliate / monetisation check
| Service | Status checked 21 Sep 2026 | Aletheia approach |
|---|---|---|
| Ground News | Official affiliate programme found. | Apply; use a tracked link only after approval. |
| Bookshop.org UK | Official standard affiliate programme; advertises 10% commission. | Preferred book affiliate. Current links remain ordinary until the real tracking link is known. |
| YouTube | YouTube Shopping affiliate has expanded to eligible UK creators, but it is a creator product-tagging programme rather than a normal website referral to YouTube. | Useful later for an Aletheia YouTube channel, not as the news-page link monetisation method. |
| BBC / iPlayer | No public website referral/affiliate programme verified in this research. | Keep as free public-service links. |
| Times of India | No public TOI news-subscription affiliate programme verified in this research. | Keep as a useful source link unless an official programme is later confirmed. |