Quentin and me
I have to admit “I’m shutting your butt down!” was a slight disappointment from the creator of some of the most exciting dialogue of modern movies.
I interviewed Google’s Eric Schmidt about his fascinating book on how the world must adapt to cope with new technology. But first, the thorny question of tax avoidance.
This article first appeared on the Huffington Post Blog. Charlie Brookers’s latest episode of Black Mirror : White Bear being broadcast on Channel 4 tonight at 10pm got me thinking. Here’s the text : My seven-year-old walked in to the bathroom with an iPod and took a picture of me in the shower. She thought…
I have to admit “I’m shutting your butt down!” was a slight disappointment from the creator of some of the most exciting dialogue of modern movies.
I love the immediacy of Twitter, but hate some of its consequences. I love the intimacy, but hate the intrusion. Do we need to reconsider our relationship?
The new series of Channel 4’s Unreported World kicks off with a journey around America ahead of the election looking at the truly extraordinary world of talk radio.
As George Entwistle faces the culture, media and sport committee, the MPs on it will want to know was the editor of Newsnight pressured into dropping the Savile story? Did senior executives actively try to cover up a BBC scandal?
The Prime Minister got a c minus for his quiz. He confessed – in jest – that the grilling might spell the end of his career. Matt Frei on David Cameron on Letterman.
It will be the most potentially embarrassing appearance on a talk show since Jonathan Ross asked David Cameron if he ever had sexual fantasies about Margaret Thatcher. Equally, if he pulls it off with aplomb there will be dividends. The Prime Minister is going to ‘do’ David Letterman tonight.
The high point for drama so far was Robert Jay asking David Cameron this morning if, before the election, he’d seen Rebekah Brooks every weekend he was at his country home. He had to think long and hard before saying it probably wasn’t every weekend.
As the Leveson Inquiry calls Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s former adviser, Adam Smith, to give evidence, Channel 4 News Politics Editor, Gary Gibbon, ponders a potential strategy for the minister.
Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on Andy Coulson’s appearance at the Leveson inquiry so far.
Channel 4 News politics editor Gary Gibbon on Rupert Murdoch’s first exchanges at the Leveson Inquiry, in which the media mogul discusses conversations with Margaret Thatcher
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson on the steps that could be taken post-Leveson to tackle corrosive UK journalism.
Could the Murdoch dynasty survive after all? Krishnan Guru-Murthy blogs on James Murdoch and the phone-hacking scandal.
“No one knows where it would end… Dublin? Madrid? Lisbon? Rome? Shiver our timbers… London?”