Today’s (slightly longer than usual) extract from The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial* is by Phil Harding, author of the BBC’s editorial guidelines when he was controller of editorial policy. Harding, a former editor of the Today programme and deputy editor of Panorama, asks: what is journalism in...
Michael Parkinson is the doyen of British talkshow hosts. Since he left, things – he says – have gone downhill. Thank heavens he’s got a new series on the way Michael Parkinson is not here yet, so I have a nosey around his office. It’s a beautiful place in...
The latest tabloid attempt to paint ‘preacher of hate’ Abu Qatada as a bloater certainly puts his lesser sins in perspective Lost in Showbiz is aware that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but is something similar true of terrorism? Or is terrorism showbiz for ugly politicians? Or politics for...
The latest tabloid attempt to paint ‘preacher of hate’ Abu Qatada as a bloater certainly puts his lesser sins in perspective Lost in Showbiz is aware that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but is something similar true of terrorism? Or is terrorism showbiz for ugly politicians? Or politics for...
The latest tabloid attempt to paint ‘preacher of hate’ Abu Qatada as a bloater certainly puts his lesser sins in perspective Lost in Showbiz is aware that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but is something similar true of terrorism? Or is terrorism showbiz for ugly politicians? Or politics for...
‘I’m still the same person the Guardian used to eulogise when I was a young MP,” says Robert Kilroy-Silk. “On all the liberal issues I am the Guardian man. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, I’m opposed to the death penalty, I’m anti any form of discrimination against women, I believe in...
