Gary Lineker and the impartiality trap
The BBC presenter is caught between the worlds of old and new media.
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David Dimbleby’s Invisible Hands charts the ascent of free-market ideology in Britain
The six-part BBC Radio 4 series forensically dissects the dissemination of free-market capitalism throughout the British political system.
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Reform is the right-wing media’s monster
The Tory press made Farage. Now, like Frankenstein, it is bewildered and menaced by its own creation.
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The BBC finds itself not guilty
Also this week: Gordon Brown takes on Murdoch, and The Sun’s grasp of voting patterns.
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The Organ Symphony is an ode to the human body
This bizarre and brilliant BBC Radio 4 series imagines what our heart, brain, lungs, kidneys and liver might sound like.
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How the Titanic sank
The BBC Sounds podcast Titanic: Ship of Dreams captures every detail of the catastrophe.
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Steve Rosenberg: the last man in Moscow
The BBC reporter talks courting Putin, playing piano with Gorbachev, and the rising tensions of a nation at war.
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Nothing inflames the imagination quite like the Shipping Forecast
Thinkers of all kinds have been drawn to it over the decades, and poets are no exception.
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As the literary novel fades from relevance, James Graham is the writer for our era
The author of Dear England has channelled the people and events that made modern Britain.
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The Online Safety Act is no match for Big Tech
Also this week: Another pricey BBC settlement, and muzzling the Voice of America.
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Who let the BBC inside Thames Water?
The water company has made a calamitous mistake in letting TV cameras capture its day-to-day operations.
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How did the BBC’s Gaza documentary ever get broadcast?
Cuts have hollowed out the corporation’s decks of talent – to the point where catastrophic errors slip through.
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The BBC’s fumble leaves the stories of Gaza’s children untold
Also this week: Britain united over copyright law, and Trump’s war on the US press rages on.
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The problem with “open secrets”
Also this week: Netflix tackles the Corby toxic waste scandal and polyamory admin.
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Why Mark ZuckerBro turned Meta Maga
Plus: Dominic Cummings cosies up to Elon Musk, and a reboot at the Beeb.
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The magic of seeing in the new year in Sydney
Also this week: leaving the BBC and why koala bears need a seat at the diplomatic table.
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Elon Musk’s secret weapon
BBC News is the key to the X owner’s fixation with British politics.
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John Simpson: “No matter the danger, I wanted to strut my stuff”
At 80, the broadcaster reflects on his favourite dictators, being tortured, why Trump is “so distasteful”, and the damage Tony…
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Gary Lineker: “I seem to live in the Daily Mail’s head”
Exclusive interview: Gary Lineker on leaving the BBC, the war in Gaza and his new career as a “media mogul”.
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Looking back on a year of great drama for the media
There have been high-profile sales, far-right hate and a smattering of BBC scandals.
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