Has Leveson finally delivered a mortal blow to Rupert Murdoch? | Henry Porter
Allegations of lies, deceit, bribes, perversion of justice and downright malfeasance… all that has flowed out from News InternationalIf Rupert Murdoch didn't know his power was in ineluctable decline, he had only to watch Harriet Harman on TV last we...
Jonathan Franzen is wrong: the digital age is making us smarter | Henry Porter
Jonathan Franzen says the e-reader is a threat to our very systems of justice and self-government. He couldn't be more wrongIn the last few years of his life, Charles Dickens went on the road for a punishing schedule of public readings, which certainly...
Christopher Hitchens: my friend, a man who never lost his taste for intimacy and good conversation | Henry Porter
You cannot read his writings about the pain he endured from radiation without shedding a tear and gulping hardJournalists are notoriously sentimental about the loss of one of their own: gusts of hyperbole appear about the recently departed only to be f...
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
For a book born amid such ill-feeling, Julian Assange's memoir is surprisingly revealingDespite being rushed, unfinished and disowned by its subject – making it perhaps the first ever unauthorised autobiography – this book is surprisingly revealing...
What the 7/7 survivors and my friend Hitch tell us about courage | Henry Porter
Bravery, whether performed in the public eye or in privacy, can take many formsReading the reports from the inquest into the Edgware tube bombing and the advance publicity for Jeremy Paxman's interview with Christopher Hitchens for Newsnight, I wondere...
The beguiling power of mystery that can make us forget a family’s pain | Henry Porter