The possible closure of Britain’s oldest Sunday newspaper, the Observer, is just the latest doomy portent to appear to an already beleaguered press. A campaign to save the paper is already gathering pace. But why? For the sake of the people who work there? Because it provides a liberal counterbalance to the right-wing excesses of its rivals? Because the loss of any paper, no matter its political orientation or preference for celebrity-driven content, is a loss for democracy? Sunder Katwala of the Fabian Society and Sunny Hundal over at Liberal Conspiracy have differing, but equally intriguing views on the matter.
- The Frontline Club has launched a quartely broadsheet devoted to “high-quality” coverage of international politics and culture.
- Tribune, the left-wing periodical founded by Aneurin Bevan and that boasts George Orwell as a former literary editor, has relaunched.
- Everybody’s favourite Jewish anarchist website, Jewdas, is back and better than ever. Jewdas, as if you didn’t know, is determined to resurrect “the great radicalism of Jewish tradition, a tradition of dreamers, subversives, cosmopolitans and counter-culturalists.” (And unlike elsewhere in the community, you don’t have to be Jewish to join in.)
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