The UK has not always been blessed in its newspaper proprietors: we’ve had the Canadian sent to jail in America for defrauding his shareholders, the British national who bought a famous title with the proceeds of porn, the Czech-born naturalised Briton who ran off...
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Contents
Editorial Stop the sale
Not finally…
Liz Vercoe asks what words mean
Kim Fletcher is too mean to pay
Nick Jenkins remains hopeful
Simon English plots mischief
Liz Gerard It’s a bit late now
Michael White Fighting dirty
Tom Leonard Catnip for viewers
Bill Hagerty My night with GB News
Julian Petley Where power lies
Lynne O’Donnell Letting down Afghans
David Aaronovitch Writing for money
Roy Greenslade We know who’s guilty
Sean O’Neill Let us name them
Amit Roy What I have learned
Book reviews
Alex Massie doesn’t buy James O’Brien
Stryker McGuire gets to know Rupert Murdoch
Kerry Brown questions media views on China
Simon Kuper marvels at Nadine Dorries
John Stapleton strolls down memory lane
Quotes of the quarter
X Watch
The way we were
What do you mean?
What if it’s not possible to write “the truth”? What if words themselves are the problem? About the most hotly debated subject since the former president and would-be president Donald “The Donald” Trump launched the term Fake News has been journalism and truth....
It’s going to get so dirty
You thought the American election would be controversial? Wait until you see what papers cook up on the UK one
Truth to power? Oh do spare us
Perhaps we should look more closely at the way in which the UK’s largely Conservative newspapers continue to shape our politics
My race? No one made it an issue
Through half a century of social change around the world, this reporter concentrated on bringing back the story
