Alan Rusbridger

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tom Clark |Alan Rusbridger

Could it happen here? Could a populist leader be elected in the United Kingdom and sweep away institutions, norms and accountability in the way Donald Trump has behaved in his first 100 days as president? Are there checks and balances to prevent a wholesale assault of the sort that Trump, Musk and Vance have mounted in the United States? Or have we complacently relied on an unwritten constitution and “good chap theory” to muddle through?

1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger

The Independent's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. commentThe days when people could get away with outright climate change denial are mostly behind us, writes Alan Rusbridger. But using net zero as the latest front in the culture wars is just as badI am trying to imagine Kemi Badenoch in June 1940. “We shall not yet fight on the beaches,” she might have said.

2 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger

commentBritain’s longest-standing Jewish newspaper has refused to run an advert from former Israeli military and intelligence chiefs criticising Benjamin Netanyahu. The case raises more questions about the paper’s backers and who is calling the shots, writes Alan RusbridgerMore curious goings-on at the Jewish Chronicle, the only paper in British history, so far as I can see, where we are not allowed to know who owns it, or why.

3 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger

Richard Wagner may, in the words of WH Auden, have been an “absolute shit”, but he was unlucky in the acolytes and slavish disciples he gained, and who then created a cult that ended up in some very dark places. One such cultist was an Englishman called Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), a racial ideologist educated at Cheltenham College who believed that the Germans were fated to destroy the Jews, whom he viewed as a bastard race of greedy inferior foreigners.

3 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger

commentThe country’s longest-standing Jewish newspaper ran fabricated stories that have prompted a widespread inquiry in Israel, writes Alan Rusbridger. But at home, the press regulator has show little interest in holding the title to accountIn Tel Aviv, a festering scandal reaches the top of Israeli society. In London, a shrug of a regulator’s shoulders. Welcome to the latest twist in the baffling story of the Jewish Chronicle.