Daytime Television
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
Auntie to the rescue
Can the BBC give us daytimes to remember?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out