Why the right is obsessed with Angela Rayner
The media can’t handle a working-class woman having fun and wielding power
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Reform’s wall of silence in Nottingham is a glimpse into the future
Councils led by Nigel Farage’s party are a preview of what a Reform government would look like.
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Who will save local news?
The community papers that hold politicians to account are slowly dying.
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The public doesn’t like Brexit. Has anyone told the media?
From the broadsheets to the tabloids, journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion.
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Reform is the right-wing media’s monster
The Tory press made Farage. Now, like Frankenstein, it is bewildered and menaced by its own creation.
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Farewell to the Lady, a magazine for more genteel times
Also this week: Big Tech’s multiplying court cases, and the sale of the Telegraph limps on.
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Will the nightmare sale of the Telegraph ever end?
Also this week: no laughs in Trump’s White House, and Ofcom fines OnlyFans’ parent company.
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The fall of the mainstream media
How the press was demonised – and why it matters.
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JD Vance’s “free speech” hypocrisy
Also this week: a proliferation of new London media outlets, and another baby for Elon Musk.
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Prince Harry settles with Murdoch – but who blinked first?
Also this week: Fox News wins the White House and TikTok’s fluffy image in the UK.
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This England: Barking up the wrong tree
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Staff react with fury to the Observer sale
The deal to sell the newspaper to Tortoise Media has been approved.
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Will staff go on strike to block the Observer sale?
Bosses may be weighing plans to jettison the Sunday paper against potential disruption to the global Guardian brand.
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The cowardice of the Washington Post
The Jeff Bezos-owned paper has refused to endorse a candidate in the US election. Plus: a boardroom battle over the…
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Paul Marshall anoints Michael Gove as editor of the Spectator
The former cabinet minister trades Whitehall for Fleet Street.
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The new media barons
Legacy titles are being snapped up by private capital, in Britain and the US.
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The Murdoch dynasty’s future is being decided
Also this week: The Observer up for sale, crisis at the Jewish Chronicle, and Huw Edwards’ day in court.
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