Are you sure we’re talking about the same Labour party? Cause the Labour party i know is Blairite through and through. It was also under Labour that Britain started to wage ruthless and bloody military campaigns post WW2 in an attempt to cling to its colonial empire, for instance in Malaya. These are their genes, that is their fundamental character: imperialism and neoliberalism. Corbyn was an outlier, a short-lived exception.
Pop science journalism is also frequently sensationalist garbage. In my own field where i am familiar with the subject matter i’d say they have a hit rate of maybe 50% where they actually write something good albeit boring for the average reader, and that’s mostly because the people writing have a real background in science. In other fields where the journalists are essentially amateur enthusiasts the ratio of decent pieces to garbage is even worse.