Where the consumer is king, those who can best package the darker corners of ourselves can do very well indeed.
He points out that sometimes independent units within media organisations break stories, but management don’t follow them up.
Our deputy editor tells Newsnight that the controversy about housing illegal entrants in hotels will continue until the Government bites the bullet and builds a proper asylum estate.
It seems the demand for a certain type of bully in Britain has obviously outstripped supply, and influential figures and organisations must now conjure them up in an attempt to exaggerate their own victimhood.
Whatever further details emerge, and regardless of how the story plays out, this episode has illustrated something quite disheartening about our political and media ecosystems.
Henry Hill clashes with Craig Mackinlay MP on whether the former prime minister remains an asset to the party.
Our editor speaks to the Today programme about how the Conservative Party should handle the former prime minister.
“He’s quitting as much on his own terms as he can, given the essentially zero political wriggle-room he had left.”
Robert Jenrick says that high net immigration puts pressure on services and discourages investment in innovation and British workers.
Laws such as the Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act predate instant messaging and the blurring of the lines between official and personal communication.
The irony is that it was originally established by a Conservative prime minister, and need not exist in a state of perpetual existential struggle against one of the country’s two main parties.
She tells Laura Kuenssberg that the Conservatives will “need to reflect” on this week’s local elections.
The upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.
The Conservatives have “no plans” to change the way the BBC Chair is appointed, according to the Transport Secretary.
I will be looking to introduce a Private Member’s Bill to guarantee our rights to bank accounts. If I cannot get the time for that, I will be looking to amend the first relevant Bill that goes through the Commons.