New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Auntie at the precipice
The BBC faces a perfect storm of looming threats
Trump’s film tariffs would be a total flop
The President’s idea for rejuvenating Hollywood is an absolute clunker
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to