Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Kenya’s history rewritten
Inflated Mau Mau death figures based on incorrect statistical projections have now become accepted as “fact”
How Ofcom signed off on Channel 4’s lies
The regulator was complicit in a misleading C4 documentary about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
