Media
How the Germans saved the Telegraph
I spent my last year as editor of this magazine trapped on an auction block, hunting for a new proprietor.…
Nancy Guthrie and the gamification of crime
Nancy Guthrie had been missing for less than 48 hours when the game began. Not the investigation, which was already…
The Bezos-Musk rivalry and the changing power of media
Elon Musk knows something Jeff Bezos doesn’t. Each has had turns as the world’s richest man, and both are media…
How the Washington Post became a liability for Bezos
What does Jeff Bezos’s gutting of the Washington Post say about America’s sense of itself and of its place in…
The unbearable smugness of American journalists
Polls occasionally appear which reveal the extent to which people trust – or rather don’t trust – journalists. In one…
Is Russia Today finished?
As the British authorities debate whether to ban the propaganda channel of a savage imperialist power, Russia Today is making a…
Why we shouldn’t ban Russia Today
Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary, has written to Ofcom urging it to keep the situation with Russia Today ‘very carefully…
Boris is about to give Silicon Valley censors more power than ever
Four years in the making, the Online Safety Bill has now been sent to senior ministers for review — a…
The rise of Indian cancel culture
In 1975, India’s prime minister Indira Gandhi suspended democracy. The so-called ‘Emergency’ was largely of her own making, giving her…
Wild life
Kenya Each time I sit in St Bride’s on Fleet Street during the memorial of another friend, I look around…
Un-cancel Terry Gilliam!
I am starting to wonder if the world of arts and culture is staffed, in large part if not exclusively,…
It’s no wonder young people have ‘eco-anxiety’
Is it any wonder that children and young adults are going down with ‘eco-anxiety’ , as claimed in an opinion…
Kompromatt
How I missed the Hancock story
What do Extinction Rebellion have against a free press?
One can only hope that the profound political thinkers of Extinction Rebellion took care not to dump cow manure on…
Tala Halawa and the progressive media’s anti-Semitism blindspot
The tale of Tala Halawa has an ever-mounting horror to it: each sentence is more disturbing than the last. First…
High life
New York With the Karamazovian hangover now only a weekly occurrence, the healthy life rules supreme. Well, most of the…
Why would Biden grant the press access now?
Joe Biden had barely finished his acceptance speech on Saturday when journalists, tired and weary of four years of mean…
The American media is failing you
American journalism has lost its bearings, and we are all paying the price. For the past four years, egged on…
People trust the media less than Trump on COVID. Here’s why
The national media is now less trusted than President Trump to provide accurate information and analysis about COVID-19, according to…
Extra, extra — read all about us!
Instead of telling us about America, or even the world outside, American journalists now tell us about other American journalists. The…
The protests have not ended COVID-19
Remember when peaceful protesters of the economic lockdown were smeared for apparently putting lives at risk by utilizing their First…
Newsflash: Trump insults everyone
Want to know the worst kept secret in America? Every time President Trump and the White House Press Corps do…
We’re all guilty of recruiting this virus to our cause
There must be a quote from Shakespeare for this, but so far I haven’t found it. It’s the way we…
