Mic Wright

1 week ago | brokenbottleboy.substack.com | Mic Wright

Event announcement: If you’re in or around London on June 11th, I’m launching my book at Ink84 in Highbury between 6.30 and 8.30 pm. I’d love to see you. Click the following link to grab a free ticket. Previously: Cover story In the years following World War I, the stab-in-the-back myth, which maintained that Germany lost the war because of Jews, socialists, and communists who betrayed the nation on the home front, was a powerful one for the far right.

2 months ago | brokenbottleboy.substack.com | Mic Wright

Previously: FeMail trouble“When former Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear stepped down from his post at the start of 2022 — after nearly a decade at the helm — he was treated to a lavish leaving party at Tate Modern (a bash he shared with a PR for the programme, who was joining the Daily Mail). Some people were missing.

Jan 23, 2025 | brokenbottleboy.substack.com | Mic Wright

Previously: Trump StakesReviewing UK coverage of Donald Trump's second inauguration so you don't have to... July 19, 2011, was “the most humble day” of Rupert Murdoch’s life, or so he claimed to the parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking. But Murdoch was not humbled by that grilling or the pie in the face he received later in the same hearing.

Nov 13, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Mic Wright

Parents must cough up or check outParents must cough up or check outThe protests have been loud, long and increasingly personal – yet unsuccessful in diverting the government from its plans to impose 20% VAT on private school fees from January ’25. Around 7% of all school-age children and 18% of those over sixteen currently attend private schools.

Nov 12, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Mic Wright |Viv Groskop

As I sat down to write this column, a tundra of white space stretched out before me, empty but for the blinking cursor goading me to get on with it. A blank page provides a good example of how freedom can feel – in theory you can fill it however you please but in practice you are constrained in so many ways. I’m not free to write whatever I want here because this issue has a theme (freedom) and I’ve agreed with the editor on how I’ll approach that topic in these 900 words.