With just a couple of days to go until the first match kicks off at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, it has been a strangely muted run-in to the 2026 World Cup. Media muscle memory has kicked in, with the usual dutiful assembly line of familiar furnitur... See more
The relationship between the media industry and the technology sector has been fraught at least since the arrival of search engines in the late 1990s. It became more so with the advent of social media a decade later. Again and again, news publishers have ... See more
What the hell has happened to Channel 4? A broadcaster once acclaimed for creativity, originality and risk-taking has sunk ever deeper in recent years into a purveyor of cheap reality television and manufactured sensationalism. This month’s revelations th... See more
It would be pushing it to describe the 2023 Tubridy scandal as a tragedy, but there is definitely something of the farce about the fresh controversy over RTÉ presenter payments which has been greeted in some quarters as its sorry sequel. Last week’s decis... See more
How did Nigel Farage go from marginal crank to Britain’s possible next prime minister? Whether Nigel Farage is the most consequential British politician of the 21st century is debatable. But he is certainly the most durable. Ten years after the UK voted t... See more
