The Camden New Journal’s assistant editor Anna Lamche interviewing MP Caroline Lucas

IF you are bored of every television political correspondent telling you they understand some­thing – ie they have been spoonfed a WhatsApp briefing – and want something a little different, may I suggest you take a look at a new YouTube channel called Peeps.

It’s being produced by our sister titles, the Camden New Journal and the Islington Tribune, which are taking the indepen­dent, campaigning journalism to a wider audience.

The new platform on YouTube includes films and interviews aimed at going behind the headlines and hearing from people you don’t always see on the national news.

We are a country which rightly now celebrates and promotes diversity, but not in diversity of thought. The CNJ has always believed that the media only survives and thrives with pluralism, and cannot be the fiefdom of the rich.

In the first uploads on the Peeps Online channel, reporters will take you behind the scenes of some of the discussions at the recent political conferences, debate the effectiveness of protest and take a rare look inside an international arms fair which happens in our city every two years with­out most Londoners even knowing.

Here’s the big plugs: you can subscribe at www.youtube.com/@peepsonline ­

The aim is to open up our reporting to more readers looking for something new and alternative.