On Radio
Palin was a rare Radio 4 treat
The triumph of Michael Palin’s Book of the Week and the tragedy of Radio 4 comedy
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
Radio 2 is now beyond my Ken
What used to work, and what listeners enjoyed, is no longer the most important consideration for the decision-makers in Radio
Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
Bragg shows what is possible
A show worth the licence fee by itself
Decolonisation is not a metaphor
In praise of the rough honesty of the far left
Lewis the prophet
The Narnia author deserves to be remembered as a seer and a sage
Gaza and hope
Amidst the horrors, could there be some signs of future peace?
The American position in the Middle East courts peril
Keeping US troops in Iraq and Syria is too much of a gamble
The opposing eagles
Geopolitics in Nazi Germany and the United States
The study and the slaughter
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
A bonfire of the straw men
Rishi Sunak declares war on policies that never existed
Good riddance to the “conversion therapy” bill
It would have represented an attack on free speech
An economic peasants’ revolt?
ARC provided a platform to a vital dissident message, but it needs to lose the dead weight of discredited ideas
Alastair Campbell has it backwards on Ireland
The British government was too indulgent of Irish nationalists
Murders for October
Edinburgh, exploitation and epicurean excess
