The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
