An ambitious newcomer ‘Does Mr Murdoch’s Times Radio have a chance? Commercial radio has not posed a significant threat to the BBC’s dominance in this sector since the corporation’s monopoly control of the airwaves ended July 10, 2020 Media
The Greatest Man I Ever Knew? The rich, varied, and absorbing life, and careers, of John Freeman June 23, 2015 Books·Media·Publishing·TV
Britain Still Needs The BBC Despite everything, the BBC is still one of our great cultural forces June 22, 2015 Culture & Anarchy·Media·Modern Life
Left Foot Forward A plethora of new Left-leaning French magazines show that in France the intellectuals remain socialist May 27, 2015 Counterpoints·France·Media·Publishing
Washington Blame Game Was the journalist Judith Miller's bad intelligence to blame for the 2003 invasion of Iraq? May 26, 2015 Books·Espionage·Iraq·Media·Politics·War on Terror
An English Enthusiast Reflections on the passing of beloved music critic Michael Kennedy February 23, 2015 Culture & Anarchy·Media·Music
The Write Stuff Is it ever worth the trouble reading journalism whose politics you fundamentally disagree with? December 18, 2013 Counterpoints·Media
The First Steps of a Great Newspaperman Sarah Johnson introduces an account by her late father of his earliest days in journalism December 17, 2013 Features·Media
Scrap the Licence Fee and Privatise the BBC The logic behind a nationalised broadcaster was never perfect. In the age of subscription television and the internet it is indefensible November 25, 2013 Features·Media·UK Politics
Airtime To Fill Twenty-four-hour news coverage should have ushered in a new age of investigative, in-depth journalism. Instead, it’s banal, repetitive and slack June 24, 2013 Counterpoints·Media
We Can Have a Free Press and Justice Too The real threat to liberty is not Leveson but the Coalition’s own Defamation Bill—yet it is not too late to make a sensible amendment December 17, 2012 Features·Human Rights·Media·UK Politics
Freedom of the Press Now Concerns Us All The censorious among us can seize on vast amounts of online evidence and use it to ruin the lives of citizens at random June 26, 2012 Features·Human Rights·Media·Politics