BBC
The needy party
Wanting to be liked is a recipe for hatred
The vast plight of the Proms
The end of BBC Four is a death sentence for BBC Orchestras and the Proms alike
BBC butterflies
Trans charity Global Butterflies seems harmless — but are they really cuckoos in the nest?
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
More of the same news from the BBC
Stonewall’s agenda is still embedded in the Corporation’s culture
The BBC can’t fix its class problems with quotas
The Corporation’s diversity obsession is the problem, not the solution
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
Did Mary Whitehouse have a point?
The moral campaigner is having another moment in the spotlight
The Rev Colin Godley: Media vicar
A man for all airwaves
The Critic Books Podcast: The BBC — A People’s History
One hundred years on from the founding of the BBC, David Hendy speaks about how history has shaped the corporation
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day