Is the American media ‘sanewashing’ Donald Trump? On latest Media Confidential @Lionel barber and I talk with Rebecca Solnit bout the routine normalisation of incoherence and lies. mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dive into the hugely important world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong? Lionel, former editor of the Financi...
The latter I’m afraid
First a peerage and now a plum job. Why does Boris Johnson keep promoting [Baroness] Charlotte Owen ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/677...
Baroness Owen was just 29 when she was given a life peerage by the former prime minister. A year on, she has another new role. What makes her so uniquely qualified?
Is Elon Musk cruising for a bruising? @mediaconfpod is back! And @lionelbarber and myself start by putting this question to ex-Twitter exec @brucedaisley.bsky.socialmediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dive into the hugely important world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong? Lionel, former editor of the Financi...
My take on the triumph of the far right in East Germany, and why far right extremists winning a state election is a dangerous first with far reaching ramifications well beyond Berlin. 👇👇
Moderate parties will refuse to form a coalition with the AfD after its success in Thuringia and Saxony. But that doesn’t mean the political centre is equipped to resist it
Mountains, music and exquisite muesli - the annual @schubertiade festival in a sentence. #Bregenzerwaldwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6774...
I’ve just returned from an Austrian festival devoted in large part to Franz Schubert—and would certainly recommend the experience
Durov, Musk and other big tech overlords are about to discover the limits to free speech. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
Elon Musk and his ilk have evaded regulation for far too long. But could the tide finally be turning on irresponsible social media barons?
The latest @prospectmagazine.bsky.social _magazine uk is out, online and on sale. * Paul Mason: the new digitally-organised fascism. *Jonathan Sumption: the US Supreme Court case that gave Trump immunity * Nathalie Tocci : the Orbanisation of Europe * Philip Collins : we need a wealth tax…andmore.
I'm pro-social media, but Musk's idea of Twitter is destroying a centuries-old idea of how knowledge is formed and agreed. Now people don't know what or who to believe - and that's dangerous. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Last week I learnt the personal cost of calling out Elon Musk. But we still need to do it