All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
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
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
