Sunday, July 5, 2026

How xenophobia went viral in South Africa

 


The online campaign stoking South Africa’s latest xenophobic backlash.

South Africa is experiencing an ugly wave of xenophobia driven by a coordinated digital campaign by anti-migrant groups.

As prejudiced rhetoric seeps into mainstream news coverage, a growing number of South African journalists are trying to figure out who’s really pulling the strings behind the movement.




Saturday, July 4, 2026

German riot police clash with protesters attempting to block far-right AfD conference

 


Riot police have clashed with opponents of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on the streets of Erfurt in Germany, where thousands met to block roads and prevent AfD delegates from attending the party’s biennial national conference to elect its leadership.

Police reported 20,000 protesters were demonstrating in the eastern city, where Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla are expected to be re-elected as the party’s co-leaders in the run-up to crucial regional elections in which AfD could win power at state level for the first time. Their opponents, led by the 'Resistance' alliance, staged sit-in blockades in the city centre in an attempt to prevent the AfD’s approximately 600 delegates from reaching the conference grounds









Sunday, June 28, 2026

Starmer couldn’t master the media. Can Burnham?



Keir Starmer is out after a short tenure as prime minister during which he failed to connect with voters and much of Britain’s media. As Andy Burnham prepares to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade, can he navigate a media landscape transformed by Brexit and the rise of Reform UK?

 

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Trump’s Iran deal, Israel’s meltdown


Trump says it’s a breakthrough. Israeli media call it a disaster.

Richard Gizbert and Meenakshi Ravi unpack the battle to define the Iran agreement as Washington sells diplomacy, Tel Aviv rails against betrayal, and Tehran keeps its guard up.

Sunday, June 14, 2026

The president, the billionaires and the news

 


As US President Donald Trump tries to end the US-Israel war with Iran, host a World Cup, and prepare for midterm elections, he has also deepened the battle lines between himself and the US media.

In the week that Trump walked out of an interview with NBC, he also openly speculated about how a change of ownership at CNN might affect its coverage. At CBS, turmoil at the flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, is a sign of the pressure journalists are under from billionaire media owners.

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