Documentaries
The BBC has a “poor people” problem
The broadcaster is obsessed with trying to reach an audience it doesn’t understand
Meet me at Ronnie’s
A new BBC documentary captures the spirit of the club that made London a global hub for jazz
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
