Television
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
Why we love medical drama
The morbid and the erotic mingle in the portrayal of surgery
The regime slop of daytime TV
Establishment propaganda is being forced down the throats of the old, the ill and the unemployed
In praise of the middlebrow
Sometimes, a television show really does deserve the hype
British comedy can’t keep up with the modern world
The return of the Mock the Week is strange and sad
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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
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
The student loan debate misses the real question
Degrees should be less essential but more valuable
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust