Jo Murray
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If you enjoyed #TheHack tonight here’s why the story mattered….
Robert Redford, me, Toby Jones - and a reporter who found corruption in his own backyard. Thoughts on the coming ITV drama, The Hack www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Me, Toby Jones and a timely reminder of why we need a free press
A new drama on the phone-hacking scandal shows us journalism at its worst, but also how reporting can make real change
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September 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If you enjoyed #TheHack tonight here’s why the story mattered….
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I really cannot stress how contemptible this is – or how deeply offensive it is to the families of people who fought and died in conflicts as America’s military allies, when it asked for help. There are hundreds of such families in the UK alone. And thousands more who served and returned.
HEGSETH: We wore a patch on our shoulder that said ISAF -- International Security Assistance Force. And you know what the joke was? That is stood for 'I saw Americans fighting.'
COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died
COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died
June 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I really cannot stress how contemptible this is – or how deeply offensive it is to the families of people who fought and died in conflicts as America’s military allies, when it asked for help. There are hundreds of such families in the UK alone. And thousands more who served and returned.
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This is good.
this one works fwiw www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n77...
June 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This is good.
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EXCLUSIVE: Neil Kinnock slams Labour’s strategy on Reform as “100% wrong” and “mortally stupid” in a new Prospect interview with @arusbridger.bsky.social. “Appeasers get eaten,” he says.
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Neil Kinnock: Labour is ‘100 per cent wrong’ to fight Reform UK on its own turf
The former Labour leader on his party’s ‘mortally stupid’ strategy to combat Reform
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June 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Neil Kinnock slams Labour’s strategy on Reform as “100% wrong” and “mortally stupid” in a new Prospect interview with @arusbridger.bsky.social. “Appeasers get eaten,” he says.
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Steve Witkoff builds nice hotels and likes Vladimir Putin. Surprised reporters haven’t looked more closely at the people who loaned money to the man charged by Donald Trump with bringing peace in Ukraine and the Middle East app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69622/...
Steve Witkoff’s record should worry us all
The man tasked with negotiating world peace is an old friend and golfing partner of his presidential boss. But when it comes to the most sensitive negotiations on earth, he is in desperately over his ...
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March 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Steve Witkoff builds nice hotels and likes Vladimir Putin. Surprised reporters haven’t looked more closely at the people who loaned money to the man charged by Donald Trump with bringing peace in Ukraine and the Middle East app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69622/...
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This is a shocking read from a photographer on the ground in El Salvador:
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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March 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is a shocking read from a photographer on the ground in El Salvador:
A critical listen to hear Sir John Sawers - former head of MI6 - talk about how the deep state keeps us safe. It's clear we are entering very dangerous times.
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John Sawers: ‘The deep state is what keeps us stable’
Podcast Episode · Media Confidential · 20/03/2025 · 44m
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March 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A critical listen to hear Sir John Sawers - former head of MI6 - talk about how the deep state keeps us safe. It's clear we are entering very dangerous times.
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Police in Turkey have arrested Istanbul’s mayor—a key rival of President Erdogan—just as he was expected to be nominated as his party’s presidential candidate.
It’s a great time to revisit Ezgi Başaran’s recent dispatch on Turkey’s “slow boil into authoritarianism”.
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It’s a great time to revisit Ezgi Başaran’s recent dispatch on Turkey’s “slow boil into authoritarianism”.
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Turkey’s slow boil into authoritarianism
No restriction on the free press is small, no interference with an independent judiciary is insignificant
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March 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Police in Turkey have arrested Istanbul’s mayor—a key rival of President Erdogan—just as he was expected to be nominated as his party’s presidential candidate.
It’s a great time to revisit Ezgi Başaran’s recent dispatch on Turkey’s “slow boil into authoritarianism”.
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It’s a great time to revisit Ezgi Başaran’s recent dispatch on Turkey’s “slow boil into authoritarianism”.
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Highly recommended read
Today is a great day to read @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Prospect’s latest issue is out today! Here’s a taste of what’s inside... 🧵
For the cover essay, Randall Kennedy writes, “Trump promised to make America great. Instead, he may bring about its destruction...”
Who will stop him?
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For the cover essay, Randall Kennedy writes, “Trump promised to make America great. Instead, he may bring about its destruction...”
Who will stop him?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
March 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Highly recommended read
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🎧: The New York Times’s @jimrutenberg.bsky.social joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber to share the inside story of reporting on Murdoch’s secret trial—and uncovers the Succession-style drama behind it all.
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Rupert Murdoch’s dynasty: Who will take the crown? | NYT’s Jim Rutenberg on Media Confidential
One of the world's biggest media dynasties is in crisis. Last December, in a Nevada court, the Murdoch family battled to decide who would take control of its media empire.
Alan and Lionel are joined by Jim Rutenberg, writer-at-large for the New York Times, who was one of two journalists who obtaine
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March 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🎧: The New York Times’s @jimrutenberg.bsky.social joins @arusbridger.bsky.social and Lionel Barber to share the inside story of reporting on Murdoch’s secret trial—and uncovers the Succession-style drama behind it all.
www.youtube.com/watc...
www.youtube.com/watc...
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So much of the language around Trump is about power and specifically about making him look powerful. Journalists today writing that Zelenskyy 'bends' to Trump or 'kisses the ring'. You could equally say that he is successfully manipulating Trump.
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
So much of the language around Trump is about power and specifically about making him look powerful. Journalists today writing that Zelenskyy 'bends' to Trump or 'kisses the ring'. You could equally say that he is successfully manipulating Trump.
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Sitting Tory MP and ex minister here:
March 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Sitting Tory MP and ex minister here:
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.
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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
March 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
Why no challenge of Fred Fleitz of the United States National Security Council on the Today Programme?
March 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Why no challenge of Fred Fleitz of the United States National Security Council on the Today Programme?
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Looking forward to the @washingtonpost.com’s hot take on the Trump-Zelenskyy debacle. It’s all about personal liberties and free markets, remember?
February 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Looking forward to the @washingtonpost.com’s hot take on the Trump-Zelenskyy debacle. It’s all about personal liberties and free markets, remember?
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BREAKING: Critic magazine proprietor Lord Kronsteen announces an important change of direction for the SKETCH.
February 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
BREAKING: Critic magazine proprietor Lord Kronsteen announces an important change of direction for the SKETCH.
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Democracy dies in deference
February 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Democracy dies in deference
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Emily Darlington confronting one of Musk’s (impotent) agents…Heroic stuff.
This video - Meta, Tiktok & Twitter squirming before an MP's evidence of their pollution practices - is well worth your time just to confirm where we are on this.
Imagine what the reaction would be if these people were polluting drinking water rather than 'just' minds.
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Imagine what the reaction would be if these people were polluting drinking water rather than 'just' minds.
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Are social media companies keeping us safe? My questions to Meta, X and TikTok
YouTube video by Emily Darlington
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February 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Emily Darlington confronting one of Musk’s (impotent) agents…Heroic stuff.
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As the UK raises its defence spending stuartmcgurk.bsky.social investigates the £6bn splashed on two aircraft carriers. It's a monumental piece of reporting www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
Britain’s aircraft carriers: a national embarrassment?
The Royal Navy’s £6bn carriers have been ridiculed by Russia and others as symbols of British decline and delusion, obsolete in the age of drones and ...
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February 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As the UK raises its defence spending stuartmcgurk.bsky.social investigates the £6bn splashed on two aircraft carriers. It's a monumental piece of reporting www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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Reform currently has zero (0) MPs in the chamber for the statement on defence spending.
February 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reform currently has zero (0) MPs in the chamber for the statement on defence spending.
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As tensions rise and US protection appears in question, Taiwan’s leaders must choose between asserting independence or accepting closer ties, writes @isabelh.bsky.social.
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Taiwan’s frontline dilemma
The Kinmen islands, close to the Chinese mainland, have seen both fighting and friendship with Beijing. As tensions rise and US protection appears in ...
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February 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
As tensions rise and US protection appears in question, Taiwan’s leaders must choose between asserting independence or accepting closer ties, writes @isabelh.bsky.social.
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“One in 12 in Londoners is illegal migrant”; this was a recent front-page splash in the Telegraph. It contained not just one mistake but several, writes @jdportes.bsky.social.
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Immigration myths are everywhere
The media is flooded with outright lies and misleading statistics. Countering the falsehoods is arduous work
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February 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
“One in 12 in Londoners is illegal migrant”; this was a recent front-page splash in the Telegraph. It contained not just one mistake but several, writes @jdportes.bsky.social.
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I'm on the lookout for a talented reporter to come and work with the team at @bylinetimes.bsky.social as we continue to grow.
Please get in touch at adam@bylinetimes.com if you're interested
Please get in touch at adam@bylinetimes.com if you're interested
February 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm on the lookout for a talented reporter to come and work with the team at @bylinetimes.bsky.social as we continue to grow.
Please get in touch at adam@bylinetimes.com if you're interested
Please get in touch at adam@bylinetimes.com if you're interested