Bob Vylan, Kneecap and the politics of Glastonbury The police have got involved after this year’s festival. Here’s what it was like to be there ...

In this week’s Q&A, the hosts weigh in on the BBC bringing in paid services for across the pond. They also discuss Anna Wintour stepping down from Vogue...or is she? Plus, after a court found that the ...

Raymond Martin can’t stop talking about toilets. As we discuss ways a toilet could make a profit, the director of the British Toilet Association (BTA) is prone to flights of fancy. “What about a taxi ...

When people have asked me for TV recommendations recently, my primary answer has been the second season of Nathan Fielder’s HBO show The Rehearsal. The next question, fairly enough, tends to be: ...

This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Line Vaaben, who is ‘existential editor’ at Danish newspaper Politiken. Line and her team write stories that explore the complexities of ...

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In the age of TikTok, how can newsrooms earn attention? Alan and Lionel are joined by Sophia Smith Galer, digital journalist, author and founder of Viralect. Sophia shares why TikTok shouldn’t be ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

But spending time with them crystallised for me just how big a billionaire problem the world now has, and why solving it may be a precondition for successful action on so many of the other problems we ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...