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The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word… independent.co.uk/voices/gb-…
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The BBC has no correspondent in South America. Who decided that, and on what basis?
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger on BBC governance, why journalists need someone in their corner, and what the Guardian’s digital transformation can teach the BBC.
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So, @arusbridger asks, how does a democracy oversee something so potentially lethal when its leaders are still struggling to get to grips with TikTok?
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Nuclear weapons, the financial derivatives which caused the 2008 crash, social media, now A.I. Since most legislators struggle to comprehend them, we need to design democratically meaningful forms of oversight. Don’t close those humanities departments just yet. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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ChatGPT tells me there’s only one MP qualified to regulate A.I., and only four congressmen. What hope is there of democratic oversight? independent.co.uk/author/ala…
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Banning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom is against billionaires—and it’s very much on, writes @arusbridger prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
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While a handful of billionaires control our information and Farage plans not one, but two, Reform TV platforms the BBC is withering away through benign neglect app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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Modi, Orban, Erdogan, Trump, Farage. They all learn from each other on how to deal with journalists, and how create their own propaganda channels. independent.co.uk/voices/don…
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Last week - when all the front pages headlines were about Farage and his £72m - Farage fronted his own GB News show ….to talk about Farage! He compared his critics to communists and then interviewed other guests - about himself! OfCom has lost its sense of smell app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots independent.co.uk/voices/nig…
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In reporting on Edward Snowden and allegations of complicity in post- 9/11 torture we were told by some senior journalists that it was wrong to question anything MI5 or M16 said. Bad advice then, as today.
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Five questions you might ask of anyone claiming to be in favour of a two-state solution but is vehemently opposed to the sanctions on West Bank proposed by the UK and 11 other countries app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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So.... £2,485 on glasses for a PM was "sleaze rotting our politics to the core" but £72,000,000 in a single day for Nigel Farage is celebrated as hitting "the jackpot" and a "war chest..."
Whatever is happening here is happening in plain sight. You decide!
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“At what point does support for a two-state solution become merely declaratory if one opposes virtually every available measure intended to prevent the territorial conditions for it disappearing?”, asks @arusbridger
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Many members of the Israeli establishment – from former PMs to judges, generals and academics – vehemently oppose the actions of settlers in the West Bank and support sanctions. You wouldn’t know it from the criticism aimed at Ed Miliband independent.co.uk/voices/isr…
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The Sunday Times approached Nigel Farage and Reform about this story this morning.
A confidential source told us that Delo, a crypto billionaire criminal pardoned by Trump, had given £35m to Reform.
Now, as with other stories on Reform finances, it has been given elsewhere.
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Climate sceptics bend over backwards to dispute whether extreme weather events are attributable to climate change. And editors indulge them app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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My Avis rental car was pummelled by hail stones in a Biblical storm last week. And I learned a lot about the car hire business and attitudes to climate change independent.co.uk/voices/cli…
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well, that was embarrassing for both the Times and the Telegraph, extremely revealing about @JLPartnersPolls' ethics, incriminating about @jtworr and Dan Jukes and dreadful about Nigel Farage. Pretty brilliant piece of journalism.
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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