Editorial Taking control
Not finally…
James Harkin runs from journalists’ egos
Lynne O’Donnell calls out the Taliban
Charlotte Henry watches a victory for equality
James Hughes-Onslow celebrates being posh
Charlotte Henry Time to look beyond London
Julian Petley What is a journalist?
Wendy Sloane Save us from AI make believe
NCTJ roundtable Journalists and the law
George Greenwood Why don’t courts help us?
Julian Petley How Michael Grade went rogue
Tom West A way to make tech pay us
Lynne O’Donnell Beware the wealthy buying media
Book Reviews
Ray Snoddy comes up against Rupert Murdoch
Luke Harding explains Russian media
Stefan Stern traces Jewish roots
Yvonne Roberts admires a monster
Simon Heffer praises an Economist writer
George Gross researches our late queen
Dave Hill unravels a London mystery
Conrad Landin likes a journalist’s novel
Xwatch
Quotes of the Quarter
The way we were
There’s a short answer when people ask what our latest prime minister brings that his predecessor did not. He’s good at communication. We have little idea what Andy Burnham stands for and no sense of where he plans to lead the country. But we have glimpsed a lively,...
Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, there is little ambiguity about the character of their second regime. Women and girls have been stripped of education, employment and much of public life. Independent media have been dismantled, dissent...
As social media feeds fill with AI-generated imagery, even the tech savvy are losing track of truth
Too many court cases are going unreported. The government’s closure of an online database has made things worse
The big fear for journalists used to be libel. Now there is so much more to worry about