On Radio
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
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
Sack the lot at rotten Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is drowning in a puddle of self-willed mediocrity
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
