Max Rashbrooke

Max Rashbrooke is a journalist and author based in Wellington, New Zealand. He was the editor of Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis (2013) and the author of The Inequality Debate: An Introduction (2014). His work has appeared in the Guardian, the New Zealand Herald and elsewhere.

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Published in Overland Issue 219 Winter 2015 · Culture

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Max Rashbrooke

In February this year, Peter Oborne, the chief political commentator for Britain’s Daily Telegraph, dropped a bombshell: announcing his resignation from the paper, Oborne claimed that its owners and senior staff had systematically suppressed negative coverage of the banking conglomerate HSBC in order to attract its advertising. Oborne’s convincing account, backed up by his own experiences and multiple interviews with Telegraph writers, was a shocking reminder of the power of corporate interests and of the very real threats to free speech.