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‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks, on 19 October 1945, George Orwell published an essay in the London Tribune, entitled “You and the Atom Bomb”. In it, he surmised what if “the great nations make…

The Conversation

Malcolm McDowell: ‘I would be a total disaster as a spy – I do love to gossip’

The actor on nailing Rupert Murdoch’s accent, working with Stanley Kubrick and missing old-fashioned dinner parties

The Guardian - AU

The divide: who really profits in today’s economy?

Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump’s tariffs, tech cashes in

The Guardian - US

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From Oracle to Paramount to TikTok: How Larry and David Ellison Are Building a New US Media Dynasty

Larry and David Ellison lead Paramount Skydance, reshaping the US media landscape through tech integration, major acquisitions, and political scrutiny.

International Business Times UK

The Hack: Where are Andy Coulson and Nick Davies now?

Viewers gripped by ITV's The Hack are wondering what happened to the real characters from the show in the aftermath of the scandal

Woman & Home

The U.S. will now actually control TikTok’s algorithm, JD Vance says

With the Ellisons (Oracle) and Murdochs (Fox) in the mix, Trump allies are poised to take at least partial control over the app’s recommendation engine.

Fortune

Friday essay: new revelations of the Murdoch empire’s underbelly – from The Hack’s real-life journalist

This is the humblest day of my life, declared Rupert Murdoch to a parliamentary committee on July 19, 2011. This was at the height of what the newspaper historian Roy Greenslade called “the most astonishing 14 days in British press history, with daily shock heaped upon daily shock”.

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Trump’s deadline call to Rupert Murdoch from Air Force One demanding he kill WSJ story on Epstein birthday note: report

Trump and his team desperately tried to get Murdoch and his newspaper to stop the story

The Independent UK

‘Bomb went off’: Report reveals moment Epstein files rocked the White House and why Trump is desperate to keep them secret

The Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files fallout was reportedly a summer of ‘disorganization,’ high-stakes strategy meetings in the Situation Room, and a series of ‘errors’

The Independent UK

Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control

Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons

The Guardian - US

The Hack review – David Tennant is a class act in sprawling ITV phone-hacking drama that tries to do too much

3/5 Jack Thorne, who wrote ‘Toxic Town’ and ‘Adolescence’, is back again with a show that might have worked better as two separate stories

The Independent UK

Lawsuits, cancellations and bullying: Trump is systematically destroying press freedom

United States President Donald Trump is well advanced in his systematic campaign to undermine the American media and eviscerate its function of holding him and others in power to account.

The Conversation

Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump’s billionaire backers

Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp’s ‘worrying dominance’ in Australian media

The Guardian - AU

Gavin Newsom Says Republicans 'Buying Up Platforms' To Control Flow Of News And Information: 'They Are Censoring You In Real Time'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) on Monday accused Republicans of "buying up platforms to control the news and information you receive," hours after President Donald Trump said tech and media moguls Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are poised to help take over TikTok's U.S. algorithm as…

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The Guardian - US

Murdoch, Ellison and China: what we know about the US’s TikTok deal

TikTok’s future in the US has been in limbo for over year, but Trump says the US and China finally have a deal

The Independent UK

Wall Street Journal fires back at Trump over Epstein birthday letter lawsuit: ‘The article is true’

Lawyers for Rupert Murdoch and publishers call president’s lawsuit ‘an affront to the First Amendment’

Axios

White House discloses more details of deal to save TikTok

TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease its algorithm from Chinese owner ByteDance.

Evening Standard

The Hack: the true story behind the phone hacking ITV drama starring David Tennant

It’s a long and sordid story of illegal activity

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Euronews

Trump reveals that Murdochs and tech billionaires could take part in TikTok deal

Trump’s disclosure is the latest twist in a fast-moving potential deal to keep TikTok operating in the US.

Benzinga

Trump Names Lachlan Murdoch, Larry Ellison And Michael Dell As Key Investors In TikTok Deal, Praises Group As 'American Patriots'

On Sunday, President Donald Trump said media mogul Lachlan Murdoch and tech leaders Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison and Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) CEO Michael Dell will take part as investors in a proposed deal to transfer TikTok's U.S. operations from Chinese parent ByteDance to American ownership.

International Business Times UK

TikTok Tug-of-War: Trump Enlists Media Moguls and Tech Tycoons in Bid to Control App

A new consortium of billionaires including Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and Michael Dell has emerged as the frontrunner to take control of TikTok's US operations. This article examines the implications and the future of the social media giant.

The Guardian - UK

‘We should have been shouting about this earlier’: David Tennant on his shocking TV show about phone hacking

He went to court over having his phone tapped, and now he’s starring in ITV’s look at the Guardian’s investigation into the scandal. Tennant and writer Jack Thorne open up about this ‘immensely troubling’ story that is far from over

The Guardian - US

Trump news at a glance: president calls Charlie Kirk a ‘martyr’ at memorial

President says ‘I hate my opponents’; Kirk’s widow forgives shooter; Murdochs could be part of TikTok deal – key US politics stories from 21 September at a glance

Al Jazeera

Trump says Lachlan Murdoch part of proposed TikTok deal

Murdoch will be part of a group of US investors – including Trump allies – trying to take over TikTok’s US operations.

Axios

Rupert Murdoch, Michael Dell part of U.S. TikTok buyer group, Trump says

The White House says a deal should be signed in the coming days.

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