Alan Rusbridger
Editor at Prospect Magazine
Editor @Prospect_uk. @OversightBoard.Ex-EIC, @Guardian. https://t.co/2gU8YUIAH6. Speaking: [email protected]. migrating to @arusbridger.bsky.social
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3 weeks ago |
independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
commentIt has become the new normal to denigrate, mock and discredit journalists, writes Alan Rusbridger. Which is why it’s so important to remember and celebrate the best rather than dwell on the worstIt was the summer of 1997 – a few months after a notable marathon libel case in which our crime correspondent, Duncan Campbell, had successfully defended his exposé of suspected corruption at Stoke Newington police station.
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3 weeks ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
He is now 83. Asthma winds him a little as he makes his way to sit down and recover his breath. But once Neil Kinnock starts talking, his voice resonates as if he were still Labour leader, addressing a rally in south Wales 40 years ago. The words roll out in perfectly formed sentences, none more so than when asked what he makes of the widely held feeling that Keir Starmer is trying to take the sting out of Reform by fighting the party on its own ground.
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4 weeks ago |
independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
commentThe owner of GB News and The Spectator, Paul Marshall, is on course to become a mini-Murdoch, writes Alan Rusbridger. But his views on media bias and the BBC range from unformed to unsettlingListen to Laurence ‘Lozza’ Fox’s dog whistle: “You cannot hate them enough,” he posted on Elon Musk’s X, in reaction to a carefully neutral breaking Sky News story about a car ploughing into Liverpool fans.
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1 month ago |
independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
CommentThe messy family saga of the Marquess of Ailesbury, currently playing out like Eastenders written by PG Wodehouse, shows that it’s time for the 92 hereditary peers still sitting in the House of Lords to finally go, writes Alan RusbridgerIn the House of Lords they are still busy debating a Bill that will decide whether 92 assorted dukes, earls, viscounts and hereditary barons should continue to have a role in making laws for the rest of us.
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1 month ago |
independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
CommentThe common wisdom is we are living in an age of polarity, and parties like Reform benefit from voters pushed to the extremes. But isn’t the truth that most of us are somewhere in the neglected middle on the big issues of the day, asks Alan RusbridgerHow many people, I wonder, seriously think that Keir Starmer has much in common with Enoch Powell? It’s true that whoever came up with the phrase “island of strangers” was, at best, naive.
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