Michael Parkinson
Parky’s great river of song
Michael Henderson on the old-fashioned music that the BBC doesn’t want us to hear any longer
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation