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22Sep/23

Rupert Murdoch and the rise and fall of the press barons: how much power do newspapers still have?

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Simon Potter, University of Bristol

Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has announced his retirement as chairman of Fox and News Corp, making way for his son Lachlan. He has been demonised as a puppet master who would pull the strings of politicians behind the scenes, as a man with too much power. But what influence did he and his fellow media moguls really wield?

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14May/23

Israel at 75: how inept British intelligence failed to contain Jewish independence groups

May 14, 2023PoliticsAlan Cunningham, Begin’s Irgun, BEIRUT, Ben-Gurion, Bernard Lewis, Creative Commons, David Ben-Gurion, Gordon Trevor Moore, Haganah, Hitler, Irgun, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Israel, John Ferris, Kim Philby, London, Mandatory Palestine, National liberation movements, Nationalism, Palestinian Territories, Paris, Resistance movements, Revisionist Zionism, Samuel Stalbow, Shamir, Steven Wagner, United Kingdom, Western Asia, Yishuv, Yitzhak Shamir, Zionist terrorismadmin

Steven Wagner, Brunel University London

Before they were Israeli, the Jewish community of Palestine – the Yishuv – had been Britain’s close junior partner. A dispute over Britain’s restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine began in 1939, but was set aside during the struggle to defeat Hitler.

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