Private Passions
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ReadAfter 32 years on BBC Radio Four’s flagship news programme, Today, John Humphrys has told the Daily Mail that he is “assuming” he’ll leave the programme this year. Unfortunately, his legacy will be a style of interviewing that has made our news media less, not better equipped to give our politicians the scrutiny and interrogation a healthy democracy needs…
ReadTalking to Tim Haigh about How The World Thinks.
ReadI’ve contributed an essay to Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy edited by Carl Fox and Joe Saunders. It’s about the importance of how media interviews with politicians are conducted for a healthy, accountable democracy.
ReadJoining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are philosopher JULIAN BAGGINI and journalist EMILY DUGAN, senior reporter for BuzzFeed News. In this New Year episode, we discover the perils of anthropomorphism, the joy of hitch-hiking, and venture towards a philosophy of postcards. Along the way we learn some grubby secrets of south coast coffee making and brave a breakfast-time singalong. Wish you were here?
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