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I'm gradually migrating over to arusbridger.bsky.social. Thanks for all the wondrous times here - really! This place is still valuable in some ways for journalists, but.... (you know the buts)

For two years, a tiny handful of judges, politicians and civil servants stopped the press from revealing how an MoD data breach put thousands of lives at risk, explains @arusbridger prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

🎧: Tom McTague, the recently appointed editor-in-chief at the New Statesman, joins @arusbridger and @lionelbarber on Media Confidential... and spills the beans on his interview with Keir Starmer. prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/media…

The state’s instinct for secrecy is often dressed up as being in the national interest. It’s right to be furious about it, writes @arusbridger prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

I was hit with a super-injunction once. What does it say that the MoD thought that even the parliamentarians who oversee the spy agencies couldn’t be trusted? prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

The summer double edition of Prospect hits the streets (and the internet) today. Led off by a magisterial read by @OliverBullough on why our water companies are in the miserable mess they’re in

The summer double edition of Prospect hits the streets (and the internet) today. Led off by a magisterial read by @OliverBullough on why our water companies are in the miserable mess they’re in

“You read these never-ending debates over supposedly reforming the Upper House and it makes you wonder if anything will ever really change. It feels like an elaborate metaphor for broken Britain,” writes @arusbridger. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/westm…

Labour’s manifesto commitment to abolishing hereditary peerages couldn’t have been clearer. The twisting and turning to avoid this happening is worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/westm…

Labour’s manifesto commitment to abolishing hereditary peerages couldn’t have been clearer. The twisting and turning to avoid this happening is worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/westm…

🎧: @sophiasgaler speaks to @arusbridger and @lionelbarber about her new AI-powered app, and why newsrooms need to be producing vertical videos. prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/media…

Amazing IPSO adjudication upheld against Mail Online after it defended an article on the basis that it was based on a report in the Daily Telegraph and was too late at night to check. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newsp…

"The Labour party came into being to further the interests of the least well-off. That mission now requires the burden of taxation to shift from income to wealth." Phillip Collins on why we need a wealth tax prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economic…

I am FoI'ing the BBC on some issues to do with Israel-Gaza. DG Tim Davie told MPs on Mar 4: “Part of what I have tried to do for the BBC is to be a guardian of true impartiality through thick and thin, and that requires being completely transparent.“ But the BBC has so far…

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

The Danish newspaper @politiken employs an Existential Editor. @lionelbarber and I meet Line Vaaben, who covers love, life, death and everything in between mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

The BBC, the Gaza film they refused to show, Sir Robbie Gibb and “perceptions of partiality”. It’s complicated. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/70…

Thank you to the very brave Israeli whistleblowers who spoke to us at great risk about the terrible abuse of Palestinian prisoners they have seen in Israeli detention centres your testimony has gone out we are sorry it took so long #GazaDoctorsUnderAttack @Channel4 @zeteo_news

Do watch the Gaza medics film on C4 tonight and judge for yourself if the BBC was right to drop it

Sir Robbie Gibb had "no formal role" in discussions about ditching a BBC film on medics in Gaza. The BBC seems blind to "perceptions of partiality" when it comes to this key board member. My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/70…

At the age of 92 Alfred Brendel was thrilled to have discovered Handel. But he thought Grieg was a gateway to Rachmaninov. Which was not good. My conversations with the great pianist who died recently. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/70308/co…