Michael Buerk
Michael Buerk is a former BBC foreign correspondent and newscaster. He is now a “silver striver”, currently filming two television documentary series and chairing the Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4.
The great inquisitor of Splott
John Humphrys’ A Day Like Today touches lightly on his early career, which is a shame
You can’t beat the left at its own game
Conservative attempts to reverse leftist victimology are doomed to fail
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
Playing God with our grub
Hey, Public Health England, leave our food alone
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at