We don't dissent from facts.
We dissent from whose facts count.

Most news is written about ordinary people, not with them. A rate decision is covered from the trading floor, a climate summit from the conference hall, a border law from the parliament steps. Dissent Channel turns each day's biggest stories around and asks the question the coverage rarely does: how does this look from a shop counter in Lagos, a rice paddy in the Mekong Delta, a night shift in Ohio, a mosque in Leicester, a pension queue in Buenos Aires?

Who we speak for

Not a party, a country or an ideology. The average person, everywhere: across nations and regions, faiths and the faithless, people who left school at twelve and people with doctorates, day labourers and the squeezed middle, traditionalists and progressives. Ordinary people disagree with each other, and our essays say so.

Our rules

• We accept verified facts, and we use only facts drawn from the linked reporting and research.
• We never contradict established science. We dissent from choices and power, not from evidence.
• We criticise decisions and systems, never identities. No conspiracy theories, no dehumanising language, no calls to harm anyone.
• If the mainstream coverage is fair, we say what it left out instead of inventing a fight.