BBC Radio 4
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
A farewell to a brilliant broadcaster
Melvyn Bragg has declared his innings closed after 27 years
The BBC’s fanfare for a fanatic
Radio 4 flatters the Lancasters of this world and patronises the Connollys
This show has said it all before
Not all bad, but the tone is too breezy
Sara Wheeler on art was a winner
By telling her own story, Wheeler caught the ear of thousands like her
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area