BBC
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
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
Return to Reith
Why conservatives need to do more than bash the Beebs
I miss the old BBC
The BBC has lost its way and things have to change
Bye bye BBC
Why it’s time for Auntie to say goodnight
Chum chucking chum
Not the Nine O’Clock News, or Ten, or Eleven, or, well, any
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
Blacks to slaughter
If black lives really are to matter, we need stronger action against knife crime
Better late than never
The BBC finally drop Stonewall
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
