Media

  • A man holding up a photograph of Margaret Thatcher and Jimmy Saville together with the words 'fiends reunited' below

    Thatcher: You’ve got to fight! For the left! To party!

    Commentators frame Thatcher ‘death parties’ as tasteless bandwagon-jumping events. Have some imagination, writes Siobhán McGuirk: this is an iconoclastic moment

  • Italiano: Silvio Berlusconi al Grand Hotel Trento per la campagna elettorale delle elezioni provinciali. Credit: Niccolò Caranti

    Beyond Berlusconi

    Populist, authoritarian, xenophobic and sustained in office by a corrupt electoral system – but Silvio Berlusconi’s government isn’t the only one in Europe that can be described this way

  • A photo of a newspaper printing press in operation

    The medium is the message

    The alternative media are more than a source of news; they help keep the democratic process alive writes Gary Younge