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Protestant Power Games
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, superbly adapted for television, is brilliant because it defies easy definition
Don’t Let Police Take Liberties
The Leveson Inquiry’s carelessness with basic democratic principles has undermined journalistic freeedom
Who’s in Charge of BBC News?
The Corporation’s reporting and investigations are still essential-but now they are threatened from within
Right-on self-righteousness
Arguments made by the feminist critics of Gone Girl demonstrate the problem the Left has with language
Pride and Prejudice
A new movie about the miners’ strike ignores the fact that it left Britain with nothing to feel good about
Revolt of the TV Eunuchs
Celebrity presenters such as Jon Snow reject impartiality. But the news must not be twisted
Propaganda Shouldn’t Pay
Press officers and PRs are corrupting public life. Journalists must lead a revolt against this pestilential trade
You Can’t Read all About It Anymore
The web has ushered in a new era of journalism-but left a gaping hole in the coverage of vital local news
Deluge of Green Sentimentality
In Darren Aronofsky’s Noah God punishes humanity for its crimes against the environment
Conventional Wisdom Won’t Do
From the First World War to the rise of radical Islam, catastrophes cannot be treated like ordinary problems
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts