Media
Where are the Parkies of tomorrow?
In a risk averse world of fakes and phonies, the ever-authentic Sir Michael Parkinson is sorely missed
The wrongs of Spring
The BBC reporter has disappeared down a journalistic rabbit hole
Guess Huw?
Time for a media law reset
Does the Mail know what male means?
Where have the Mail’s balls gone?
Men are not mothers
The media pretence is insulting to women
Antisocial media
Welcome to the age of the TikTok thug and the home invasion influencer
Why has the Guardian been ignoring Mizzy?
The viral prankster has escaped their typically promiscuous attention
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
Close the MP-to-media pipeline
You probably aren’t going to be good at television
A silent whistle
Paranoia about rhetoric does more harm than good
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Doomsday is not a day of the week
Sometimes, we dwell on tomorrow at the expense of eternity
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
