Daily Mail vs The Guardian: why did editor Paul Dacre lose his rag?
“Words have consequences. They lead to actions.” So wrote Peter Oborne, the maverick right-leaning Daily Mail columnist about the shocking...
Media policy in Britain
New Videonet report: Next-generation multiscreen operations – how big is the fork in the road?
Virtualisation has many benefits, starting with increased agility, but what about the argument that it will turbo-charge best-of-breed flexibility and...
Don’t Underestimate The Power Of Britain’s Right-Wing Press
Election day 2017 saw a predictable barrage of propaganda headlines from Britain’s predominantly right-wing press, pleading with readers to give...
Why we need “Robo Laws”
Robots are in high demand soon to be working at a place near you. In the last years, the number...
I don’t care about Pippa Middleton’s wedding—nor do most Britons
The media is saturated with coverage, but the real stories lie elsewhere. Unless you’ve been camping off-grid in the Siberian...
Sick of “strong and stable leadership”? Blame brain scans
WHEN challenged by Jeremy Corbyn to explain stagnating wages, Theresa May demurred, instead reassuring underpaid employees that “the strong and...
As Prince Phillip sets the media ablaze, here’s why we still find the royal family so compelling
When it comes to breaking the internet, Kim Kardashian’s got nothing on HRH Prince Phillip. She might as well swap...
Murdoch has had too many favours
Speaking in the House of Commons just days after the phone hacking scandal broke in July 2011, the then Prime...
Full ownership of Sky will increase Rupert Murdoch’s power
Now that Rupert Murdoch’s bid for complete control of Sky has been formally notified to the European Commission, the pressure...
Playboy magazine’s return to nudity is a naked bid to cover up its irrelevance
Playboy magazine’s announcement that it will be bringing naked pictorials back to its pages after a year’s absence was strangely...