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
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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
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
