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September 2012
The Thick Of It wasn't daring. Its supposedly iconoclastic writer was just mooing with the herd
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July/August 2012
Politicians and bureaucrats at the IOC have made a mockery of the Olympic ideal. The Games-as-state-propaganda machine makes Soviets of us all
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July/August 2012
The BBC's suffocating conformism, petty prohibitions and woozy moralism are the enemy of creativity
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May 2012
Strangely, it is easier to write a state-of-the-nation drama if you set it in the past
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