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Rupert Murdoch Articles

Wake up, sheeple!

The era of post-truth politics is now in full swing It must be exhausting. I mean, really exhausting, like running up eight flights of stairs or lifting a sofa above your head. To engage with, and believe even a fraction of, the stupefyingly stupid stuff on social...

The battle against irrelevance

Labour’s travails with the media are more deadly than it thinks ‘People don’t vote for a divided party; we’ve got to learn some lessons about how we handle the media.’ So said John McDonnell during a recent LSE lecture, and frankly amen to that. Five months in, Jeremy...

Under fire

When the media turned against Labor in Australia —The recent federal election in Australia saw the Murdoch press mount its most aggressive campaign against Labor in a generation. The ferocity of this coordinated attack took everyone by surprise – except Rupert...

‘Take a leaf out of the Tories’ book’

Chris Mullin’s diaries trace the rise and fall of New Labour. He talks to Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison about the lessons he learned On Thursday 12 May 1994, for the first time in his life, Chris Mullin began to keep a diary. His first entry – ‘John Smith is dead’...