The BBC is once again in a state of meltdown, this time over its Glastonbury coverage. Having dithered over whether to show Irish rap group Kneecap, a member of the group is on bail for terror charges, they got caught up by Bob Vylan. I confess, I had not heard of the punk duo before […]
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Men’s U21 Euro 2025 England vs Germany – Whatever form of football these nations meet in, it always matters. The Young Lions started this tournament slowly but have grown into it, with their opponents undoubtedly the favourites after smashing France 3-0 yesterday. Kick of is at 8pm BST/3pm ET and it’s available for FREE on
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This time next week, Women’s Euro 2025 will be underway, with the second day of matches taking place. (The second day is far more enticing than the first, featuring as it does Belgium vs Italy and Spain vs Portugal.) The tournament is another significant juncture for women’s football in the media. Since that historic moment
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I’ve now been back in London for a few days and am starting to take in a little of what took place when I was in Israel (and Jordan and Turkey…). Aside from helping to process it all personally, I hope writing about it more provides some insight into what is really going on, or
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I’m definitely not a foreign correspondent. That has become clear to me this week. As I mentioned in Friday’s Special Addition, I was in Tel Aviv to cover Pride. You can work out the rest. I appeared on Monocle Radio from my hotel room on… I’m no longer sure what day… and that is how
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The Washington Post is reportedly exploring partnerships with other newspapers, Substack writers, and even non-professional writers (gasp!). This is part of attempts to expand the opinion section, according to Benjamin Mullin at The New York Times. At the heart of this story is, of course, AI, which the paper will use to support writers, presumably,
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Sequoia Capital has invested $100 million in Mubi, as good a demonstration as any of how technology has collided with media and culture.
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In a recent edition of the Semafor Media newsletter, Max Tani touched on the issue of gatekeeping a couple of times. “The debate about whether the legacy news media — to the degree it still keeps the gate at all — failed to adequately cover President Joe Biden’s decline is also at the heart of
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The Podcast Show London is an increasingly important event on the industry calendar, with big names attending, but indies still matter a lot.
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I had vowed not to write another story about Gary Lineker, but here we are. As readers will know, the ex-footballer has been embroiled in rows about his social media postings on various world events, not least the ongoing conflict between Israel and the terror group Hamas. This has all finally caught up with the
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