Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dig into the Media Confidential mailbox to answer listeners' questions about the media. This week, they discuss political bias in UK newspapers, as well as the ...
Nineteen-ninety seven wasn’t the worst Conservative party conference, a Tory supporter reflected. That was in 1998, once they’d realised how bad opposition was going to be. In 2024, at the ...
Two big comebacks this week—Phillip Schofield and Michael Gove—and who is to say which is the most ground-shaking? One involves confronting “total isolation…and provides the time to battle within his ...
A single idiot acting alone can cause chaos. But to make a scandal—the kind of horror that sticks in the national memory—you need lots of people to do their job so badly that whole systems collapse; ...
Since the 7th October Hamas attacks and the ensuing war in Gaza, the once relatively contained Iran-Israel hostility, ongoing for decades, has become an open and dangerous confrontation. It is driven ...
Twenty-four years ago today, on 2nd October 2000, the Human Rights Act took full effect in the United Kingdom. This legislation, which was passed in 1998 under the incoming Labour government to give ...
Jon Sopel, co-host of the News Agents podcast and a former BBC North America editor, joins Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber to discuss his new book, Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense. He ...
This week, Prospect’s commissioning editor Emily Lawford joins Ellen and Alona to discuss a dark side of the internet: the “manosphere”. Emily spent months reporting “The incel trap” for this month’s ...
Much of the UK hasn’t noticed, but an enormous shift could be about to happen in Welsh politics. Soon, Labour may no longer be its largest party. Welsh Labour has been the most successful democratic ...
At around 7.30pm on Tuesday evening, history repeated itself. Following weeks of Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, which peaked last week with the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader ...
The steps of Lebanon’s largest mosque heaved with people on Saturday, as families huddled in the shade of its limestone archways. The most fortunate among them lay on blankets they had managed to take ...
The war in Ukraine has shattered many long-standing assumptions about defence and security in Europe. It has exposed the dangers of complacency and highlighted the urgent need for the UK to rethink ...
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