BBC
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
Turning the tide on cancel culture
One man’s crusade against the woke decolonisation of our patriotic anthems
Last Night of the Proms – a storm in a teacup?
BBC Proms row has developed into an unexpectedly successful publicity stunt
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
