Channel 4
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
Can Channel 4 shake-up Super League?
The relationship between rugby league and television has never been easy. Now it’s Channel 4s turn to shake things up
Blacks to slaughter
If black lives really are to matter, we need stronger action against knife crime
Black to Front
Diversity is everywhere, but the BBC, the NHS, the Police and the Bank of England want more
Philharmonia – fact is richer than this fiction
Channel 4’s new series set in a Paris orchestra hits multiple wrong notes
And the screaming fell away
Legal threats being made against Brexiteers was news, them going away wasn’t
Pure gold among the C4 dross
Adam LeBor strikes television gold
Ukraine war is not an example of “toxic masculinity”
History suggests that female rulers are far more likely to start wars than their male counterparts
The Sexual Revolution has failed Generation X women
More freedom won’t cure the disease
The comeback Pig
A country pub where the cooking extracts the maximum amount of flavour
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
Deporting Prince Charles
Dilyn and Boris run into Nadine in the park, who has a some bold new ideas
Clearly raising the tone
What makes the perfect radio voice?
Trojan charities
Institutional drift leftwards does not have to be inevitable
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
Why do women bear the brunt of literary censorship?
Cancellation is the modern manifestation of public shaming culture
How do we deal with war crime?
The horrors of Bucha have reminded us that humans are capable of evil on a huge scale