Exclusive: Reform overtakes the Conservatives in media mentions
New research from Cardiff University finds Reform is now treated as the opposition party on mainstream news shows
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Exclusive: BBC director general Tim Davie resigns
He’s held the post since September 2020
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Journalists in Gaza are accepting a death sentence
Anas al-Sharif is among the hundreds killed by Israel since 7 October 2023.
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The Brits who want to overthrow the state
And why it will never happen.
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The rebuilding of Tommy Robinson
The EDL founder has conquered the “alternative” media sphere.
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Addison Rae and the art of AgitPop
Her public persona is one of a starlet propped up by a Warholian cabal.
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Britain’s AI delusion
Sacrificing national security or intellectual property for digital progress could leave the country incalculably worse off.
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Elon Musk’s secret weapon
BBC News is the key to the X owner’s fixation with British politics.
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The making of a media mogul
For centuries, the news industry has been shaped by wealthy, powerful men. Have they also helped to destroy it?
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Will the Daily Telegraph’s new buyer threaten its independence?
Dovid Efune has entered into exclusive talks to buy the title. Plus: the shrinking Standard and Badenoch woos the Sun.
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Has social media pushed fandom to a point of no return?
It used to be people would respect your personal space – now, it’s all a bit sinister.
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Google’s days of monopolising the web may be numbered
Also this week: Michael Gove’s delight at Spectator editorship, and the BBC’s Strictly bullying claims.
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A Very Royal Scandal is the latest surreal instalment in the Prince Andrew multiverse
In Scoop vs Scandal, this is the clear winner. But is that the sound of TV eating itself?
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Why the far right has turned on the press
Recent unrest in England has revealed that intimidation, assault and abuse of journalists is on the rise.
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The Washington Post drama reveals the myth of Americanisation
Britain’s distinct journalistic style is proof of its cultural independence.
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Jonathan Dimbleby Q&A: “I’d run my estate as Tolstoy ran Yasnaya Polyana”
The broadcaster and author on running a 19th-century household, Mikhail Gorbachev, and identity politics.
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This England: Prize barrow
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The pain of writing a very personal memoir
Also this week: All change at the Evening Standard, and Rishi Sunak’s karaoke song.
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Fleet Street is colonising the American newsroom
As US newspapers haemorrhage cash, a British sensibility is their last hope.
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Bodkin is a very 21st-century media satire
The journalism jokes are the highlight of this comedy thriller, which pokes fun at the clichés of true crime podcasting.
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