He’s back! The great Steve Bell on a year in Trumpland app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/71862/...

How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

For his last issue as Prospect’s editor, @arusbridger.bsky.social takes an in-depth look at Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper that is revered and reviled for its unflinching coverage of the Gaza war: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

New Prospect out now! A brilliant winter double issue—bumper, one might even say. Highlights include @arusbridger.bsky.social , in his last issue as editor, on Haaretz, Lucy Jones on tardigrades, @katemaltby.bsky.social on Marlowe, and Stuart McGurk on Morgan McSweeney bsky.app/profile/pros...

How should a newspaper behave when its own country is at war? The Israeli newspaper @haaretzcom is both revered and reviled for the path it has chosen. My long read profile of a remarkable institution www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

David Dimbleby has raised an uncomfortable question: is it just possible that our royal family is....plain greedy ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/monarc...

🎧: @wildfranz.bsky.social, editor of the @tbij.bsky.social, joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social on Media Confidential to discuss why investigative journalism is more important than ever.

And that’s a wrap. Just put my final @prospectmagazine.co.uk to bed after four and a half years, and nearly 45 issues. The best possible luck to a fabulously talented and lovely team and to my successor, Philip Collins.

Nigel Farage appears to equate Alf Garnett - a satirical 70s character intended to lampoon racists - with hissing "Hitler was right" to boys at school. I wonder if he's missing the point www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...

An elegant and splendlidly contemptuous swatting of the horribly contemptible and profoundly dishonest Farage - and a very good dig at Farage's Trumpian "lowest grade presenter" jibe at Ms Barnett for skewering him so effectively. Well done, Alan Rusbridger!

This is very good.

“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...

One of the world’s greatest news organisations has been brought to the brink of meltdown by… what, exactly? Three hours of MPs questions revealed nothing to write home about, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.

Why did @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Sarah Davidson call their new publication The Nerve? They tell @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com here: prospectmagazine.sub...

🎧: @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social reunite to discuss the budget leak and Rutger Bregman’s allegations that BBC censored his remarks about Trump.

Do you have strong feelings on whether Community Notes can work/do work/don't work? If so, please do take part in helping the Oversight Board's work on how/whether they should be rolled out beyond the US

A firestorm has ripped through the BBC, but no one can quite put their finger on why. An analysis of yesterday's curious hearing into an undoubted PR coup by those who wish the BBC ill www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”

“Do you think the BBC is institutionally biased?” Michael Prescott, author of the Telegraph dossier: “I don’t”

“Six days after I sent the memo to OfCom, DCMS, there it was in the Telegraph.” Michael Prescott strongly suggests he didn’t leak it to the paper. Hmmm. Who did, then?

Can Samir Shah survive at the BBC? And what sort of Telegraph would the Daily Mail stable produce? Up to the minute breaking episode of @mediaconfidential.bsky.social with @janinegibson.ft.com www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Sound of penny dropping at the BBC www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

The handling of this BBC row is beginning to look a little shambolic www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Two veteran US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists watched the BBC Panorama that led to the decapitation of its two leading executives. Their verdicts may surprise you …. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

🎧: @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com talk to David McCraw, the lead newsroom lawyer for the New York Times. He encourages the media not to be intimidated by Trump’s lawfare.

“It may take some time, it’s gonna cost some money… but I would not be worried” America’s best media lawyer- who has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump- has reassuring words for the BBC on the latest Media Confidential podcast . app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/71623/...

Prospect magazine is launching the Prospect Resilience Series – a new roundtable programme exploring how Britain can withstand future shocks and turn risk into long-term renewal. If you would like to hear more about the Prospect Resilience Series, contact: wendy.miller@prospec...

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @arusbridger.bsky.social does a deep dive into the Prescott dossier and the BBC crisis. Plus: what would you put in your emergency bag in the event of war? @okhromeychuk.bsky.social on what Ukrainians do.

This is very concerning. In future the BBC should submit any proposals for the Reith Lectures to Karoline Leavitt at the White House so that President Trump can sign off on them. Maye Pete Hegseth next year?

The BBC should shame the American broadcasters for their spineless capitulation by refusing to be bullied, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.

🎥: How should the BBC respond to the Trump lawsuit? @arusbridger, the FT’s @janinegibson.ft.com and former BBC exec Pat Younge discuss.

Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the plight of the BBC. And the imperative for Labour to Farage proof it. But also full of colourful detail and essential lessons for RTE and others where the same weaknesses could be exploited

🎧: Under fire from powerful enemies at home and abroad, how can the BBC save itself? @arusbridger and the FT’s @janinegibson.ft.com speak to Pat Younge, former chief creative officer of BBC Television.

This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

On the BBC’s difficult governance structure, this piece by @arusbridger.bsky.social has already been widely shared but is worth a read: buff.ly/5U3iTeH

🎥: ‘The BBC mustn’t pay Trump a dime’, says former BBC executive Pat Younge. He joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com on Media Confidential to discuss the Panorama debacle. Watch 7 mins below 🧵 or click here for full ep: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

“Trump is a grifter The BBC must not pay him a dime” Former BBC top executive Pat Younge on the crisis at Broadcasting House www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

...in which I pull together all the most noteworthy aspects of Sir Robbie Gibb's tangled life at the intersection of politics and journalism.

🎧: @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social discuss their departure from the Observer...and their brand new project, @thenerve.news.

The BBC can retrieve something from this mess (and show US broadcasters what a spine is) by sending Donald Trump a four letter response: “See you in court!” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

These are the questions BBC staffers weren't allowed to ask the DG and Chair at yesterday's town hall meeting. Spot a pattern?

Here’s the latest @prospect_uk magazine, out today …on and offline. Packed with meaty reads

Here are all the questions BBC staff were not allowed to ask of the chair and DG at the town hall meeting yesterday. Spot a theme ?

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …

The BBC is now in a fight for its life. It enemies will be happy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

If you’ve been watching the Hack there’s an ITV documentary on phone hacking at 10.15 pm this evening

Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

"On top of that, I’d wonder why such close editorial scrutiny should have been entrusted to three key people who themselves rejected journalism in order to enjoy lucrative careers in corporate and political communications." This is worth a read: