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🎧: Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on Media Confidential to discuss why her publication’s style is working for gen Z. www.prospectmagazine...

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🎧: On Media Confidential, @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber are asked if they would ever pay for an interview—and if there are any interviewees who would be off limits. www.prospectmagazine...

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Another in our occasional series where those of you with a highly-developed editorial eye are invited to spot anything wrong

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Paul Marshall says he thinks most of the UK media is biased and tribal. So he set up @gbnewsonline.bsky.social Go figure. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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Does ‘free speech’ even exist? Historian Fara Dabhoiwala joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on Media Confidential to discuss how this dangerous idea has been used—and misused—throughout history. Listen to the full episode: www.prospectmagazine...

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GB News thinks it will be the main challenger to the BBC by 2028. Yet its owner, Paul Marshall (who would sell off the BBC) seems rather muddled as to why he started it. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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Did Gary Lineker really have to step down from his BBC role? @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber disagreed on last week’s episode of Media Confidential. 🧵1/3 To listen to the full episode, click here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

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Journalistic hero. Wael Al-Dahdouh receiving the keys to Bari in recognition of his courage and dedication. He lost so many colleagues and many members of his own family - killed by the IDF - while reporting for Al Jazeera from Gaza. He is still recovering from his injuries

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🎧: Why are US media organisations bending to Trump? Joseph Kahn, executive editor of the New York Times, joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on Media Confidential to discuss. www.prospectmagazine...

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Big shoes for the BBC to try and fill. Alan Yentob kept the flame of arts coverage alive. Who will fill them? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🎧: Why are US media organisations bending to Trump? Joseph Kahn, executive editor of the New York Times, joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on Media Confidential to discuss. www.prospectmagazine...

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Alan Rusbridger. "Talking of which, my eye was caught this week by a messy family saga involving the 8th Marquess of Ailesbury, who, along with 666 blue-blooded colleagues, was peremptorily booted out of the upper chamber in the great Tony Blair purge of aristos in 1999.

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The colourful life and mysterious death of the Marquess of Ailesbury reads like EastEnders scripted by PG Wodehouse. And is a timely reminder why we need to get rid of all hereditary peers from calling the shots for the rest of us.My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/699...

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How is the @nytimes.com holding its nerve in the age of Trump? @lionelbarber.bsky.social and I talk with executive editor Jo Kahn mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

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We need proper oversight of the state’s extraordinary capacity to pry into our private lives. But the committee which oversees Big Brother on our behalf is raising the white flag, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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"Robbie Gibb did not in fact like that tweet...his finger actually passed over that area of the telephone, which meant that the heart got touched." Could happen to anybody.

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🎧: On Media Confidential, @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber discuss the rudest people they’ve ever interviewed. www.prospectmagazine...

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Our instinct for moderation was once considered a defining English trait. Which makes it all the stranger that Nigel Farage has managed to brand himself as the epitome of Englishness, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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Enoch Powell was a (proud) racialist. Keir Starmer isn’t. When did we lose the art of calibrated and nuanced debate ? My column. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/699...

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And here’s the guardian obituary which references his hugely important libel victory against the Police Federation www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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Duncan Campbell’s death is a cruel loss to journalism. Wise, kind, universally trusted, universally liked. Writing wonderful pieces to the end www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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Britain didn’t fall for fascism or communism in the thirties because we huddled somewhere in the middle. Which makes it all the stranger that Nigel Farage has branded himself as the epitome of Englishness, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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Isn’t it strange how Nigel Farage has branded himself as the epitome of Britishness when in fact most Brits are rather sensibly moderate on most issues? My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/699...

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🎧: CNN CEO Mark Thompson joins Media Confidential. He is asked whether the US is heading towards state-owned media... and why CNN gives the president airtime. www.prospectmagazine...

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Scary stuff!

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..and here are 10 ways in which it could happen www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/698...

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Could it happen here? Would a future government - Farage, or a Johnson revival - borrow from Trump2 and lay waste to UK institutions, conventions and "good chaps" unwritten rules? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/698...

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🎧: Journalist and Hope Not Hate researcher Harry Shukman joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on Media Confidential to discuss his year spent infiltrating the far right. www.prospectmagazine...

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We’ve given our spooks eye-watering powers of surveillance but we appear to have given up on parliamentary oversight. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/699...

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🎧: Journalist and Hope Not Hate researcher Harry Shukman joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on Media Confidential to discuss his year spent infiltrating the far right. www.prospectmagazine...

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This month’s Prospect, out today, asks whether a Farage government could unleash Trumpian levels of disruption and destruction on UK life and institutions. (Spoiler alert; yes)

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“So noise replaces science. The shouters drown out the quietly knowledgeable. Slogans supplant debate. And once again we allow an ignorant populist to dictate the terms of the argument.”

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“There’s a growing, tribe of MPs & pontificators who mock Net Zero without suggesting any alternatives. This is just climate denialism in a posh suit. If the best you can do for our grandchildren is shrug your shoulders, history will not be kind.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

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On Wednesday, a co-working space in Kingston cancelled a scheduled exhibition of political cartoons titled ”License to Offend”. Last month, @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on Media Confidential asked: “are cartoonists about to be cancelled?” Re-listen here: www.prospectmagazine...

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I am trying to imagine Kemi Badenoch in June 1940. “We shall not yet fight on the beaches,” she might have said. “We are not going to set a random target for fighting in the hills. until we consider whether it would mean a drop in our living standards.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

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I am trying to imagine Kemi Badenoch in June 1940. “We shall not yet fight on the beaches,” she might have said. “We are not going to set a random target for fighting in the hills.. we have to consider whether it would mean a drop in our living standards.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

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“Richard Wagner may, in the words of WH Auden, have been an ‘absolute shit’, but he was unlucky in the slavish disciples he gained.” @arusbridger.bsky.social on a new opera puncturing the Wagner cult. www.prospectmagazine...

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Another book in which the father meets a horrible death. I’m used to it now 😂Paperback out now

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Plus Lionel and I offer first impressions of the new Observer...

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Less is more. Talk to your members. Audio over print. Authentic tone of voice. The inspiring rise of a media start up with @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of @zetland.dk on today’s podcast with Lionel Barber mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

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