Money. Power. Self-preservation. From today, the Evening Standard launches its serialisation of The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire, by Michael Wolff, author of the Donald Trump blockbuster Fire and Fury.
We begin with the inside story of the sudden firing of Right-wing Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a man who seemed to grow larger than the network itself, much like Trump before him. This isn’t Succession, the loosely fictionalised version of reality. This happened, and its impact on US politics and indeed the future of the West itself is still playing out in front of our eyes.
