Media
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 in 1973’
The Age Of Cult Politics
New media technologies allow us to listen only to those we agree with. Journalists must fight that tendency
The Greatest Man I Ever Knew?
The rich, varied, and absorbing life, and careers, of John Freeman
Britain Still Needs The BBC
Despite everything, the BBC is still one of our great cultural forces
Left Foot Forward
A plethora of new Left-leaning French magazines show that in France the intellectuals remain socialist
Time For A Leaner BBC To Pay Its Way
John Whittingdale is a Culture Secretary who means business. He must stop W1A’s Europhiles from hijacking the EU referendum
Washington Blame Game
Was the journalist Judith Miller’s bad intelligence to blame for the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
Predictable Pot-Shots At Auntie
The stifling right-wing press has adopted a cultish refusal to publish one good word about the BBC
Death By Clickbait
Online news’ thirst for traffic has sidelined polemics and transformed journalists into thieves and liars
Scrap The DCMS
“The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has done much harm and little good to the state of British arts.”
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?