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ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS
While the BBC is cutting staff in its foreign news coverage to save pennies, it’s also quietly investing in AI.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE
GB News has eagerly called out supposed bias by other broadcasters – so guess which channel has been upbraided by Ofcom for breaching "due impartiality".

CLOSED BOOK
Open Book, a Radio 4 fixture for 26 years, is no more, reflecting a broader decline in literary coverage on BBC radio.

ABF PLOT TWIST
An anonymous letter sent to an 81-year-old former trustee of the Actors’ Benevolent Fund has reignited the civil war at the charity.

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
How Elon Musk’s transmogrification into a MAGA fanboy became a major theme of the US election campaign.

GNOME CINEMA
Q Brick reviews The Apprentice, a Donald Trump origins tale that outlines how he was moulded by controversial New York lawyer Roy Cohn.