It’s been a tense 48 or so hours, but a nation can breathe again

I’m really feeling the loss of Newsnight. Leaves a huge gap in the TV schedules for reports that go into more depth than a news segment, without the long lead time and investment required for a full Panorama-style investigation.

Quite the explanation

💥🎧New episode of Media Confidential:
Has Ukraine become the forgotten war? Anne Applebaum discusses under-reporting, and the vast web of propaganda distributed by Russia, China and Iran. Join hosts alan rusbridger and Lionel Barber

👉 mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastto

With a backlog of 66k+ serious criminal cases it’s literally incredible that a single hour of court time is being wasted on prosecuting a 69-year old for holding a placard advising jurors of their rights prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/6570…

If you only read one thing this weekend, read this.

Trudi Warner is in court next week for holding up a placard. In the UK. Yes you read that right.

It’s about the rights of juries and issues of conscience.

✍️ alan rusbridger

prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/6570…

For 350 years in the UK we’ve celebrated the right of jurors to vote according to their convictions/conscience. It’s even on a wall in the Old Bailey. Now 69-yr old Trudi Warner could be jailed for saying that on a placard. My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/6570…

The law is making an ass of itself in prosecuting a 69 year old climate change protestor for holding a placard telling juries what their rights are. My column 
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/6570…

I spoke to alan rusbridger & Lionel Barber about why a counter-disinformation approach is now needed by people handling communications for our institutions. And growing public trust in the National Trust. They generously gave the recent scone scare a trigger warning. Prospect

Is Ukraine becoming the forgotten war? On Media Confidential Anne Applebaum tells why the innovation of Ukrainians in war is being under-reported. And Celia Richardson National Trust on fighting off fake news about “woke” scones. With Lionel Barber mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

Thirty reforms that could net a Labour government up to £92bn in new tax revenues - by Richard Murphy prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economic…

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LARGE LOCAL DIFFICULTIES: collapsing councils and the next Labour government

New piece in which I strain every sinew to get beyond the ever-deepening problems, and suggest some solutions

prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65664…

Rachel Johnson, 'Brexit has divided the family. Mainly into members who think Brexit is a sh*t idea, and those who think it's a really sh*t idea.. Sorry, am I allowed to say that?'

Fredrik Skavlan, 'Yes, you're in a free country now'

Rachel Johnson, 'This is what I was getting…

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