Kapadia makes his central focus the mysterious inner trial, perhaps Dalglish's hidden ordeal, that took place between 1985 to 1989; from Heysel to Hillsborough. Dalglish was the easygoing, level-headed everyman whose destiny it was to take the city's woes on his shoulders. He became player-manager just after the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985, when there were 39 deaths as a result of a riot at the dilapidated Belgian ground before the Juventus v Liverpool European Cup final.
On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic 's David Frum opens with an urgent warning about TikTok's looming deal with Trump-aligned insiders-a move David calls the "biggest giveaway since the days of the railway grants." He argues that the American media landscape has been quietly transformed, and political power has shifted from legacy outlets to algorithmic platforms loyal to the president.
This past March, the Times writer and power podcaster Ezra Klein appeared on "Doomscroll," a small but influential YouTube interview show hosted by the thirty-eight-year-old artist, researcher, and author Joshua Citarella. Klein, an avatar of the technocratic liberal media establishment, did not fit the profile of "Doomscroll" 's typical guests, who tend to come from the further reaches of leftist political theory and punditry.
He offered the BBC the rights to broadcast it live, but the corporation was nervous. Mandela had been in jail since 1962 and, to the extent that he was a well-known figure, he had been branded a terrorist. Hollingsworth met BBC executive Alan Yentob, who was wavering. Alan, Tony said, you've got to bite the bullet. Eventually Yentob agreed, replying: I'll give you five hours. If the bill improves, I'll increase the time.
In the autumn of 1943, the Gestapo responded to a tipoff that Maria von Maltzan, a German aristocrat and member of the resistance, had a Jew living in her home. Photograph: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped non-Aryan students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler only to be dramatically betrayed. What, asked Jonathan Freedland, in this extract from his new book, The Traitors Circle, made them risk it all?
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