Lewis Lapham was the last of the patrician liberals
He embodied a sensibility now lost to liberal pieties
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The press doesn’t understand the public
The only institution to have had a more damaging election than the Tories was Fleet Street.
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Stuart Weir: The editor who shaped a country
In 1988, the New Statesman’s campaigning leader devised Charter 88 – a call to arms that radically transformed Britain’s political…
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The shot seen round the world
The photograph of a bloodied Trump has turned him into a hero and captured the carnage of American politics.
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The highs and lows of election night coverage
The principal broadcasters were professional but slow to report results as they unfolded.
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Fleet Street is colonising the American newsroom
As US newspapers haemorrhage cash, a British sensibility is their last hope.
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Gaza and the new digital divide
A widening generation gap is polarising online news audiences – and coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has made the rift…
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The rise of playlist politics
How digital choice has deepened the crisis of democracy.
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