The Government’s approach is unlikely to bring out the best from those upon whom it depends to get things done.
A Foreign Office civil servant said one thing and Downing Street says another. What happened?
The Party Chairman says the question now is moving beyond the specifics to tackle “broader cultural issues”.
The latest entrant in the British media landscape has got off to a very rocky start. Can the UK’s news-light news channel find its feet?
The channel has done well to recruit voices from the podcast market and other unorthodox media channels.
The fact, however, that he has won five million more votes than he did in 2016 does tell us that we cannot write him off as an aberration.
Plus: Free school meals, Pointless Celebrities, Bower’s book And: “Did the honourable lady just call me scum?” Your chance to drink to that.
The coronavirus press conferences gave us a glimpse of what a government agenda built around one-upping the evening news will look like.
The Corporation has lost its grip on its Reithian inheritance – which, for all his criticism of the BBC, the former Telegraph editor understands.
Plus: it was down to earth with a bump for Starmer this week at Prime Minister’s Questions – as he failed to think on his feet.
Plus: Shapps’ presentational success and Hancock’s stuck tests. And: whatever Johnson says on Sunday, he’ll be damned either way.
Both sides must recognise that the Corporation as a whole can be performing well whilst its political coverage alienates Conservatives.
The UK has a lot to learn from the recent regulatory punch-up between Facebook and the Australian government.