It may not have been a coup, but whoever leaked the so-called Prescott dossier on allegations of BBC bias to the Telegraph three weeks ago—“Not Me Guv!”—certainly pulled off a PR coup. You will ...

The “Wagatha Christie” case requires at least three things to be explained. The first is how, in legal and practical terms, Colleen Rooney won and Rebekah Vardy lost. And to understand this, we can ...

When the saga of the double-decapitation of the two most senior BBC executives comes to be written, historians might care to trace it back to Dougie Smith, a shadowy backroom fixer once described as ...

On a weekend trip to Brighton, three friends and I are watching some standup comedy in a small, hot room. We’re almost the only people there, and the comedian picks us out and asks how we know each ...

Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. He replied, “I ...

This week’s special episode of Media Confidential coincides with ITV’s new drama The Hack, about the phone-hacking scandal which led to the closure of the News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry, and a ...

Last summer was all about brat and demure. This summer was about slurs against AI. New terms for a middle-aged man who treats ChatGPT as his new best mate: second-hand thinker, slopper, groksucker.

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

As the Second World War beckoned in 1939, the director of London’s National Gallery, Sir Kenneth Clark, came up with a plan: to commission a handful of carefully chosen artists to document life on the ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

When Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time in January 2025, he was surrounded not just by politicians and dignitaries, but by the CEOs of six of the world’s most visible technology ...

“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...