Media
Nobody expects the BBC Inquisition
The man who would do anything for a scoop
The New York Times
Bad times at the Grey Lady
How neutral is “Full Fact”?
Sometimes it’s hard to get anyone right
China’s media empire
China’s leaders are growing impatient as they seek to shape world opinion
Professionalism is a two-way street
The lobby’s mysterious lack of solidarity with Nadine White
Heads should roll after the BBC’s coverage of the Capitol Hill riot
Under Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s news and current affairs output has let us down again and again
Where’s Allegra?
Whose jobs will the new face of No 10 swallow up next?
No one guilty at the BBC
No one in BBC management ever pays a price for the BBC’s mistakes.They just happen, like the weather
Social media hypocrisy has huge implications for liability
Social media’s ridiculous denial of partisan editing and publishing
Trump’s exaggerations don’t justify censorship
Both Trump and the media have misrepresented election irregularities
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears