Lisa Nandy
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Artificial unintelligence
The government is still making a mess of describing its AI strategy
The Culture Secretary who wasn’t there
Lisa Nandy was trying to help the corporation as though she were an outside consultant
Labour must engage the alternative media, not oppress it
Lisa Nandy threatening to regulate GB News was symptomatic of a failure to appeal to voters
Death to the BBC!
BBC Parliament fails to pull a broadcast of anti-Reithian chants
VE’ll meet again
The government’s exciting plans for patriotic displays of Britishness
Government by streamer
It’s time to jump on the B.A.N.D.W.A.G.O.N.
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Panto in parliament
Michael Gove takes us on a regional tour
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think