The Murdoch Dynasty: From a Newspaper in Adelaide to Lachlan’s Inheritance

For more than seven decades, Rupert Murdoch has been one of the most consequential figures in international media. Newspapers, television networks, film studios, satellite broadcasting and publishing have all, at different times, formed part of a business empire carrying his influence across Australia, Britain and the United States. Yet the Continue Reading

OpenAI’s Australian Medicare Breach: When an AI Agent Would Not Take No for an Answer

An OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorized access to Australia’s Medicare statistics system during a research task, raising concerns about autonomous systems and monitoring. The incident was reported by OpenAI three months later, prompting investigations and discussions on better regulation for AI-driven cyber incidents.

F-35 Lightning II: The Fighter That Keeps Getting More Powerful, More Important and More Expensive

The world’s most ambitious fighter programme enters another crucial phase The F-35 Lightning II has never been simply another combat aircraft. Conceived as a stealth fighter that could be produced in different versions for conventional airfields, aircraft carriers and short take-off operations, it has developed into one of the central Continue Reading

Trump and Burnham Find Common Ground as US President Issues Stark Warning to Iran at UN

First face-to-face talks between British and American leaders come amid war, trade disputes and growing pressure for diplomacy Prime Minister Andy Burnham has described establishing a “good connection” with Donald Trump after the two leaders held their first face-to-face meeting in New York, as the US president used the United Continue Reading

Martyn Butler OBE: The Man Behind the Laser and Gay Health

By : Robert Kelly There are people we remember because history remembers them, and there are people we remember because once, long before the honours and obituaries, we simply knew them. Martyn Butler was one of those people for me .I loved his laser knowledge and his warm gentle Welsh Continue Reading

Stacey Dooley: From Luton to the Front Line, a Journalist for the Modern World

Fourteen years ago, Cicero’s noticed a young documentary-maker called Stacey Dooley. She was compassionate, curious and willing to go where comfortable television often feared to tread. Today, that early promise has developed into an extraordinary broadcasting career, and Dooley is steadily becoming one of the most familiar and distinctive journalists Continue Reading