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Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank

Keir Starmer accused of failing to adequately strategise while in opposition, leading to uncoordinated policymaking

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2025

Is being a Guardian reporter as exciting as the movies make out?

Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2025

The Hack: Where are Andy Coulson and Nick Davies now?

Viewers gripped by ITV's The Hack are wondering what happened to the real characters from the show in the aftermath of the scandal

Woman & Home · Sep 26, 2025

The Hack review – the astonishing story of phone-hacking makes for remarkably dull TV

Jack Thorne’s lacklustre script – full of cringe-making lines, strange dreamlike sequences and a recurring dung beetle – fails to capture the drama of the Guardian’s landmark investigation into media corruption

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025

The Hack review – David Tennant is a class act in sprawling ITV phone-hacking drama that tries to do too much

3/5 Jack Thorne, who wrote ‘Toxic Town’ and ‘Adolescence’, is back again with a show that might have worked better as two separate stories

The Independent UK · Sep 24, 2025

TV tonight: the phone-hacking scandal gets the Mr Bates treatment

Jack Thorne dramatises the Guardian’s 2011 investigation into widespread illegality at the News of the World. Plus: who is the Ibiza Final Boss? Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025

The Hack: the true story behind the phone hacking ITV drama starring David Tennant

It’s a long and sordid story of illegal activity

Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2025

‘We should have been shouting about this earlier’: David Tennant on his shocking TV show about phone hacking

He went to court over having his phone tapped, and now he’s starring in ITV’s look at the Guardian’s investigation into the scandal. Tennant and writer Jack Thorne open up about this ‘immensely troubling’ story that is far from over

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2025

The Hack: this spectacular, sprawling story about the phone-hacking scandal is this year’s Mr Bates

David Tennant is at his chameleonic best in this account of the Guardian’s investigation into tabloid malfeasance. Telling this story metes out another small dose of justice

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2025

Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle thinks he was hacked: ‘It was horrible’

Carlyle stars in new ITV drama The Hack.

Evening Standard · Sep 18, 2025