Perhaps we could stop calling the voters stupid and Polanski barking mad. His dentistry may not be immaculate. But he’s shown that he has quite a bite. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/gre...

On this week’s podcast @lionelbarber and I discuss the work of Clare Melfied that led to her US visa being cancelled app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72487/...

Cycled past Lord Mandelson’s house just now. Heartened to see so many well-wishers outside

If any other organisation continued to treat gay people as second-class citizens, they'd be held up to public ridicule and odium, if not legal action. How does the Church of England still get away with it? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religi...

Trump’s suit against the BBC should be seen for what it is: an attempt to rewrite history. It’s also a bid to fill his own pockets, discredit the work of professional journalists and chill news organisations, writes Alan Rusbridger

Former @washingtonpost editor Marty Baron tells it like it is about his former boss Jeff Bezos.

Trump v the BBC: it's not hard (except for Liz Truss) to know which side to take. But there are bigger obstacles to overcome to secure the future of the BBC, and time is short. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Donald Trump v the BBC: it should be easy to know side you’re on. We should rally to the cause of public service broadcasting before it’s too late app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72423/...

It was obvious Matthew Doyle didn’t belong in the House of Lords. As I wrote just over a month ago app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72007/...

FREE TO READ 🔓 Editor-at-large @arusbridger.bsky.social on Jeff Bezos and the decline of the Washington Post buff.ly/goLE4YZ

I joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social to discuss my work and the work of Bellingcat, why I don't like Seymour Hersh, and getting verified information out quickly on the ICE shootings. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

In his first feature for The New World, editor-at-large Alan Rusbridger examines whether Jeff Bezos can still rescue his legacy amid The Washington Post crisis @arusbridger.bsky.social

The question to ask now is WWND? (What would Nigel do?) If he gets into power why wouldn’t he flood the Lords with Reform peers?

A must read. Should come with alarm bells

Epstein has, from beyond the grave, exposed the make-it-up-as-you-go-along nature of the monarchy and the House of Lords www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

Bezos could retrieve something from the disaster of his ownership of the @washingtonpost.com by emulating the Scott family in 1932. Give the paper away and endow it with, say, $1.5 bn. And have an independent trust run it in the public interest.

I helped bring Mandelson down (twice). He was hiding in plain sight. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/710...

Matt Goodwin must be hoping no one in Gorton and Denton reads his Substack, with its obsession about too many Muslims and civilisational collapse. If only he hadn't picked a constituency which is 30% Muslim. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pop...

Matt Goodwin seems rather obsessed with "too many" Muslims and what he calls the "New Elite." Unlikely to play well in Gorton and Denton (30% Muslim in 2021 census). But if I'm wrong, dinner's on me, Matt www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pop...

You can hear the authors of our report on public service broadcasting in conversation with @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber on the future of the BBC www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

#HolocaustRemembranceDay Jonathan Freedland discusses #TheTraitorsCircle with @arusbridger.bsky.social in #Cotswolds in May. General booking 1 Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e.... #booksky

The @lmhoxford Foundation Year held up as a model for the future and as the inspiration for the @Cambridge_Uni scheme by the university’s Chancellor, Chris Smith, in today’s Telegraph

If media bosses hadn't persuaded Matt Hancock to cancel Leveson 2 I rather doubt Prince Harry et al would still be battling in court. But we are where we www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Think of Prince Harry's court cases as a substitute for the second part of the Leveson Inquiry, which was dropped by (checks notes) Matt Hancock. His civil cases couldn't match a judge's power, but they have exposed truths which needed exposing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

A man called Chris Rokos paid himself £477m last year. It’s not clear what he does to earn it. Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle of the wealth-shuffling classes app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72144/...

Lette of the day ..

What's next? I thought I'd try my hand at reporting. Seem to remember it's fun. Also continuing my column for the Indie + Prospect magazine. And some podcasting on the side. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/m...

With CBS News reportedly in turmoil under Bari Weiss, Alan Rusbridger and @lionelbarber.bsky.social speak to former CBS president Sir Howard Stringer.

Peston Rigby and Kuenssberg should all be in jail for being “enemies of the country”. Former prime minister Liz Truss chews the fat with her muse Dan Wootton. It’s crazy stuff www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

Dan Wootton is Liz Truss’s muse. He’d like to lock up @bethrigby.bsky.social and Robert Peston for their services to the Deep State. It’s all happening on her Liz’s new show. And, boy, is it odd www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

Matthew Doyle handled No. 10 comms for 9 months. He's spent 27 years in spin. We know nothing about his views or values. So who better to sit in the House of Lords. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/wes...

Keir Starmer promised to abolish the House of Lords. Instead he’s appointed Matthew Doyle, the man in charge of his, um, brilliant comms. It’s been a repeating story for more than 100 years app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72007/...

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’”