On Radio
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified