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
A pair of presidential PMs
Is Boris Johnson reminiscent of Churchill or a very different PM?
Red meat week?
Boris Johnson is reduced to conducting his publicity tours in secret
Tribes of Westminster
Steve Baker MP, Christian Libertarian
It’s no kind of night life
Why does Britain turn into a pumpkin around 6pm?
BBC butterflies
Trans charity Global Butterflies seems harmless — but are they really cuckoos in the nest?
The call to serve
Rob Hutton – sketchy leadership for sketchy times
Reversing a tragic half century of lost lives
The US supreme court decision is a victory for decency and democracy
The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure
Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts
France’s unspoken, unfinished civil war
France’s cycle of social unrest and politically polarised elections has its roots in the Algerian conflict and the ensuing unresolved struggle for the soul of the nation
Busting the myth of the Phantom Major
Thread by thread, Mortimer unpicks the lies of David Stirling’s life
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production