Alan Rusbridger

The Murdochs: autopsy of a family’s slow death Journalist Gabriel Sherman joins Media Confidential to discuss the real life Succession drama

In this Monday’s Media Confidential interview, Alan and Lionel talk to Murdoch expert Gabriel Sherman

Thank you!

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer

Suez, Vietnam, the Falklands, Grenada: the "special relationship" survived them all. But maybe you have to have a smattering of history to write its first draft www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer

Rather than concentrate on the wildfire war he's just started, Trump is spending his time on the phone with British journalists slagging off Keir Starmer. Their dictation skills turn out to be excellent www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer

Churchill would have been appalled by a figure like Trump. But some journalists have convinced themselves that Starmer is to blame for this hiccup in the “special relationship” app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72649/...

Reporting on Iran: How to cover total warfare Alan and Lionel explore the challenges of reporting on fast-moving conflicts

Press regulator IPSO to the Daily Telegraph: “Tell us how you came to publish an apparently fictional story.”
Telegraph; “No, it’s confidential!”
IPSO: “Oh, ok. Sorry to bother you”.
All in this week’s Media Confidential www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Agree. The article acknowledges that

Zack Polanski gets under the skin of exactly the right people The Green leader has yet to advance workable, deeply thought through solutions to Britain’s biggest problems—but nor has Reform

The wailing, gnashing of teeth and sheer catastrophising over the Greens’ by election victory! Maybe it had something to do with their policies, most (not all) of which resonate with many people. And a rather good candidate. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72550/...

Zack Polanski gets under the skin of exactly the right people The Green leader has yet to advance workable, deeply thought through solutions to Britain’s biggest problems—but nor has Reform

Perhaps we could stop calling the voters stupid and Polanski barking mad. His dentistry may not be immaculate. But he’s shown that he has quite a bite. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/gre...

‘It’s dangerous work’: The battle against digital disinformation Alan and Lionel are joined by Clare Melford, CEO and co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index

On this week’s podcast @lionelbarber and I discuss the work of Clare Melfied that led to her US visa being cancelled app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72487/...

Cycled past Lord Mandelson’s house just now. Heartened to see so many well-wishers outside

The Church of England is still treating gay people as second-class citizens Bishops voted 34-0 to block gay couples from being blessed in standalone ceremonies. At what point do we call this discrimination?

If any other organisation continued to treat gay people as second-class citizens, they'd be held up to public ridicule and odium, if not legal action. How does the Church of England still get away with it? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religi...

Trump’s attack on the BBC is a harbinger of much worse to come The BBC has its problems—but they are nothing compared to the American billionaires who control much of US media

Trump’s suit against the BBC should be seen for what it is: an attempt to rewrite history. It’s also a bid to fill his own pockets, discredit the work of professional journalists and chill news organisations, writes Alan Rusbridger

Former @washingtonpost editor Marty Baron tells it like it is about his former boss Jeff Bezos.

Trump v the BBC: it's not hard (except for Liz Truss) to know which side to take. But there are bigger obstacles to overcome to secure the future of the BBC, and time is short. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Trump’s attack on the BBC is a harbinger of much worse to come The BBC has its problems—but they are nothing compared to the American billionaires who control much of US media

Donald Trump v the BBC: it should be easy to know side you’re on. We should rally to the cause of public service broadcasting before it’s too late app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72423/...

The PM vowed to abolish the Lords. Why is he stuffing it with allies instead? In Matthew Doyle, we are about to get another less than stellar peer. Now is the time for change

It was obvious Matthew Doyle didn’t belong in the House of Lords. As I wrote just over a month ago app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72007/...

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on Jeff Bezos and the decline of the Washington Post

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Bellingcat founder: ‘Playing whack-a-mole with disinformation is always going to fail’ Eliot Higgins discusses the future of investigative journalism with Alan and Lionel

I joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social to discuss my work and the work of Bellingcat, why I don't like Seymour Hersh, and getting verified information out quickly on the ICE shootings.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Come on, Jeff. Don’t let the Washington Post die in darkness There’s still a way the Amazon boss can save his legacy, even as his hitman Sir William Lewis walks away from the wreckage of the great American newspaper he owns

In his first feature for The New World, editor-at-large Alan Rusbridger examines whether Jeff Bezos can still rescue his legacy amid The Washington Post crisis

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The question to ask now is WWND? (What would Nigel do?) If he gets into power why wouldn’t he flood the Lords with Reform peers?

A must read. Should come with alarm bells

Jeffrey Epstein has exposed the rotten state of the UK’s constitution The late sex offender had a ruthless capacity for exploiting grifters

Epstein has, from beyond the grave, exposed the make-it-up-as-you-go-along nature of the monarchy and the House of Lords www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

well, he would sever any relation with it and wash his hands of anything it did in future..

Bezos could retrieve something from the disaster of his ownership of the @washingtonpost.com by emulating the Scott family in 1932. Give the paper away and endow it with, say, $1.5 bn. And have an independent trust run it in the public interest.

I helped bring Mandelson down before Peter Mandelson is brilliant, but slippery. Connected, but compromised. Why was Starmer too naive to recognise that?

I helped bring Mandelson down (twice). He was hiding in plain sight. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/710...

i think it should just be a registration, rather than a pay, wall

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See my column. I’ll buy him dinner if he wins. I’m that big

Matt Goodwin isn’t the winner Farage thinks he is The academic turned right-wing firebrand is Reform’s candidate for Gorton and Denton. But his ‘Broken Britain’ mantra is unlikely to convince voters

Matt Goodwin must be hoping no one in Gorton and Denton reads his Substack, with its obsession about too many Muslims and civilisational collapse. If only he hadn't picked a constituency which is 30% Muslim. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pop...