Ken Bruce
Radio 2 is now beyond my Ken
What used to work, and what listeners enjoyed, is no longer the most important consideration for the decision-makers in Radio
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
