BBC
The UK is institutionally racist
But not how you might think
Alban Berg: Violin concerto &c. (Chandos)
A stunning marriage of the tragic and the erotic
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
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
