BBC Radio
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
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
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
I’m a Classic FM convert
Ignore the snobs, trip the light (music) fantastic and bask in the shameless joy of Classic FM
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Dungeons & Dragons made me
Was I a pudgy kid clutching pencils and a dice, or Dar Strongrip exploring a cursed castle?
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
