Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
Palin was a rare Radio 4 treat
The triumph of Michael Palin’s Book of the Week and the tragedy of Radio 4 comedy
Moving tribute to a richer time
On one tumultuous day, eleven men in strawberry-jam shirts wore crowns
Spotlight on the Black Country
BBC on the Black Country and on the passing of Michael Parkinson
Not having a gay old time
On BBC radio’s preoccupation with Americans and identity politics.
Remembering an unfashionable writer
BBC Radio 4 attempts to resurrect fallen literary figures.
Two essays in excellence
The BBC at its best on Shakespeare, and remembering Barry Humphries.
Multiple moans from the get-go
The americanisation of the BBC
England’s polymath of the piano
Greatness does not always declare itself in torrents of Slavic emotion or Germanic intellectualism
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
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
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
