There’s no shortage of predictions that the US-Israeli attack on Iran will end disastrously. Some would argue that it is already a disaster. From learned military wonks pointing out the lack of clear ...

When Apple first launched the iPod, back in 2001, it was famously faced with a conundrum: how to communicate to the casual onlooker that a person was using an iPod rather than any common-or-garden ...

When Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf told the Times last week that Christianity was “core to the history and the DNA of the country”, you might think he was merely stating the obvious. In fact, this was the ...

In 2021, the British government promised to “explore options for a wider civilian reserve” who could be activated in a crisis. The exploration happened (I was part of it), but the reserve did not.

Before I can properly say hello to Maggie Aderin, she wants to apologise: the space scientist is about to take delivery of a new shed, so our interview might be interrupted. In the end we are not ...

In today’s Media Confidential, Alan Rusbridger is joined by Marty Baron, long-time former editor of the Washington Post. Marty discusses the recent sweeping cuts across the paper—including the ...

When Sir Jim Ratcliffe, billionaire founder of Ineos, resident of Monaco and co-owner of Manchester United, told Sky News last week that the UK had been “colonised by immigrants”, he tapped into a ...

Let’s step a few years into the future. Elon Musk has bought The Times of London and is using it to pursue an entire stable of hobby horses. Lord Rothermere has unloaded his investment in the ...

There’s no telling what will make a nonfiction bestseller. Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and the late Erich von Däniken’s junk archaeology about “ancient astronauts” both seem implausible ...

There was once a ruler who was displeased with a handful of legislators and so he sought to arrest them for treason. But the attempt failed and became instead a symbolic moment, showing the limits of ...

In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel discuss the Washington Post sacking over 300 journalists—or one-third of its newsroom—and the dangers of not having a strong journalistic ...