Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dig into the Media Confidential mailbox to answer listeners' questions about the media. This week, they discuss political bias in UK newspapers, as well as the ...

Since the 7th October Hamas attacks and the ensuing war in Gaza, the once relatively contained Iran-Israel hostility, ongoing for decades, has become an open and dangerous confrontation. It is driven ...

Gavin Collins was an off-duty police officer enjoying a night out in central London when he was attacked by a pair of thugs. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, even after he’d been floored. Gavin ...

“What do you like?” is a question that well-meaning clients often ask me, and one I find endlessly irritating. It is nonsensical in the context of my work—I am engaging with the person in front of me ...

Nineteen-ninety seven wasn’t the worst Conservative party conference, a Tory supporter reflected. That was in 1998, once they’d realised how bad opposition was going to be. In 2024, at the ...

Justine Roberts is not happy. Earlier this year she discovered that tech giant OpenAI has been scraping Mumsnet—the successful website of which she is CEO—for content. AI machines, like ChatGPT, train ...

A single idiot acting alone can cause chaos. But to make a scandal—the kind of horror that sticks in the national memory—you need lots of people to do their job so badly that whole systems collapse; ...

The new government has major decisions to make on transport, including how to tax petrol and diesel fuel, how to improve local transport including bus services, and how to fix the dire condition of ...

Robert Jenrick seems to be coming through the middle in the Tory leadership contest, thanks to the implosion of Kemi Badenoch and the political nothingness of Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly. For ...

At around 7.30pm on Tuesday evening, history repeated itself. Following weeks of Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, which peaked last week with the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader ...

This week, Prospect’s commissioning editor Emily Lawford joins Ellen and Alona to discuss a dark side of the internet: the “manosphere”. Emily spent months reporting “The incel trap” for this month’s ...