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Ian Hislop in ⁦Private Eye Magazine⁩ on his encounter with the unrepentant Justin Welby

Latest on the Observer sale and Guardian Media Group strike

Brighton fans leaving early from their si-called derby. Really well-run club BHA but most of their fan base is plastic.

‘A year ago the BBC seemed to have handed the death sentence to Newsnight…yet the dire prophesies have been defied’ Ian Burrell writes the average audience is up 30% since NN’s relaunch & the digital views for its interviews are in the tens of millions

Good piece here by Ian Burrell - and really interesting idea from Jonathan Aspinwall to give #Newsnight some exposure in different times lots. BBC would be wise to do this, IMO - plenty of other programmes get some cross exposure and Derbyshire interviews amongst best at the Beeb

Well worth a read!

For all the politically-motivated and commercially-motivated attacks on the BBC its audiences are going up. 2024 was a bumper year and BBC iPlayer is winning in the UK streaming market

Jack Dorsey supports news media, Elon Musk undermines it BBC Media Action BBC World Service Thomson Reuters

Opinion | Labour must decide whether it bends the knee to big tech. And that includes Elon Musk, who is developing his AI chatbot Grok3, while simultaneously denouncing Starmer’s Britain a land where free speech is dead 🖋 Ian Burrell trib.al/LRd5JeJ

Very sad to hear of the passing of Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last known Battle of Britain pilot. His courage, and that of all RAF pilots, helped end WWII and secure our freedom. We will never forget their bravery and service. Thank you, John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway.

Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105 bbc.in/4iyA2j9

Very sad news indeed; "The Few" are all gone as John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain dies aged 105. "He never felt that he was anything special. He thought the special ones were friends who never returned. He is back with his squadron"

Witkoff to Fox today: I trust Putin, Russia doesn’t want to go beyond the five regions of Ukraine it currently controls. Meanwhile Russia: Odesa and Kyiv are Russian cities and we need to get them back.

It was an honour to hang out with the legendary BBC journalist and HARDtalk interviewer/presenter, Stephen Sackur, after he invited me to his home in London last night. We talked about the state of global journalism today and how fake news websites and social media influencers

BBC management is closing ⁦BBC HARDtalk⁩ after three decades holding power to account around the world. Here are some thoughts ⬇️ ‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC theguardian.com/media/2025/mar…

Howard Lutnick: "Let Donald Trump run the global economy. He's knows what he's doing. He's been talking about it for 35 years." Hello? Trump has killed almost every business he's ever touched. Watch.

Opinion I Russian and Chinese state media is filling a vacuum created by Trump 🖋️ Ian Burrell trib.al/3PVcDU7

I LOVE THIS CLUB #POMPEY

Opinion | "The Greens, especially, are struggling for media oxygen" 🖋 Ian Burrell says the Greens need to learn from Nigel Farage – and fast trib.al/Wmkbxgz