The Successor review: life of Lachlan Murdoch pulls punches all too often
Readers of Paddy Manning’s book should keep in mind the words of Media Matters: Fox News is ‘an unchained pro-Trump propaganda outlet that promotes white nationalism’
Nobel peace laureate Maria Ressa: ‘In 2024, democracy could fall off a cliff’
The journalist, who is facing prison in the Philippines, talks about the dark side of social media and why truth is being eroded in politics
From George Floyd to Hunter Biden: Lachlan Murdoch, Fox News and the year that tested America
In an extract from his biography The Successor, Paddy Manning considers how Rupert Murdoch’s favored son dealt with the challenges of 2020, and what might come next
Think lefties should be civil about people like Suella Braverman? I politely refuse
The argument that a ‘woke army’ threatens free speech is baffling, given that the right is eroding basic respect and dignity, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
‘It survived VCRs, DVDs, streaming’: how HBO remained on top for 50 years
In the exhaustive new book It’s Not TV, the history of the scrappy upstart turned cultural monolith is detailed
‘Lachlan gets fired the day Rupert dies’: Murdoch biography stokes succession rumors
New book by Australian reporter Paddy Manning hints at Succession-style feud with ramifications for US rightwing politics
Ian Jack obituary
Brilliant exponent of long-form journalism, Guardian columnist and editor of the Independent on Sunday in the 1990s
No journalist had a deeper sense of history than Ian Jack
Endlessly curious and knowledgeable, the Guardian columnist was renowned for his interest in the industrial working class from which he came
Ian Jack, Guardian columnist and former Granta editor, dies aged 77
Writer who also edited Independent on Sunday remembered as one of the best in British journalism
Jonathan Stedall obituary
Documentary-maker who covered politics, historical figures and great railway journeys in his nearly three decades at the BBC
Trump bragged about new US nuclear weapons, Woodward tape shows
Former president told Washington Post reporter: ‘We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before’
John Miller obituary
Other lives: Author and broadcaster who wrote authorised biographies of Judi Dench, Peter Ustinov and Ralph Richardson
George Orwell’s classic works to be published on Substack
Down and Out in Paris and London will start the project and be delivered to subscribers in ‘coffee break’ segments
Bob Woodward to publish Trump interviews detailing his ‘effort to destroy democracy’
The investigative journalist’s new audiobook, The Trump Tapes, digs deep into the threat the former president poses to democracy
In brief: Motherthing; Night Terrors; Looking for Trouble – review
A gripping, darkly humorous horror novel; the strange world of sleep; and the reissue of a dazzling wartime memoir