BBC
Batting for Biden: the BBC and the US election
The BBC has been wholly partisan in its coverage of Donald Trump ever since he was elected
The BBC is a liar. But is it noble?
Robin Aitken’s analysis is idiosyncratic but rings true
Malcolm Arnold: The Dancing Master (Resonus)
The BBC thought Malcolm Arnold’s opera was not serious enough and a bit bawdy
Channel 4 turn off IT Crowd
Laurence Fox’s woke intervention, Glasgow football honour US liberal and Essex spray a Muslim with champagne
Wokeminster
Tories reject unconscious bias training, BBC show critical race lecture, and Colston falls (again)
The silence of the arts
Why have the arts not strained at the bonds laid upon them in the way earthier pursuits and pleasures have?
Giving straight white men all the best jobs isn’t always good news
Why should we expect BBC lifer Tim Davie to end BBC bias or high pay?
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
A conservative chairman won’t save the BBC
No matter who takes over the BBC, the corporation is irrevocably broken
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
