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The Political Editors: How Reporting Changed
From sending stories by mail to sacking ministers by tweet, 'The Political Editors' series showed how the news, and the creators of news, changed ove…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Political Editors: Steven Swinford
The Times' current Political Editor Steven Swinford has been in the job for a turbulent three years, straddling three prime ministers and at least 42…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Political Editors: Francis Elliott
Francis Elliott became The Times' Political Editor in 2013, covering an extraordinary period that saw the end of the coalition, the slow downfall of …
2 years, 6 months ago
How To Write A Great Political Speech
Sixty years ago Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which went onto shape modern America. Hugo Rifkind asks a panel of former…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Political Editors: Roland Watson
After covering the US for the Times in the aftermath of 9/11 - and interviewing President Bush in the White House - Roland Watson returned to the "go…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Political Editors: Philip Webster
Philip Webster was political editor at the Times for 18 years, a colossus of the Blair and Brown eras who survived nine editors at the paper. He tell…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Political Editors: Sir Peter Riddell
Westminster veteran Sir Peter Riddell tells Matt about his time charting the dramatic end to the Thatcher era, underestimating John Major, Labour com…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Political Editors: Julian Haviland
Julian Haviland became political editor of the Times in 1981, but his career in journalism began in the 1950s and covered every prime minister from A…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Political Editors: Fred Emery
The Political Editors is half a century of politics told by the people who wrote the first draft of history for the Times.
First up is Fred Emery, who…
2 years, 6 months ago
Has Political Correctness Saved Comedy?
Has political correctness come to bury comedy, or to save it? Patrick Maguire speaks to David Stubbs, who believes 'wokeness' has been good rather th…
2 years, 6 months ago