TV
Why ‘Lady Chatterley’ Still Provokes Us
On the set of the BBC’s recent adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel, I realised that his most controversial book is as important as ever
The Greatest Man I Ever Knew?
The rich, varied, and absorbing life, and careers, of John Freeman
Predictable Pot-Shots At Auntie
The stifling right-wing press has adopted a cultish refusal to publish one good word about the BBC
Protestant Power Games
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, superbly adapted for television, is brilliant because it defies easy definition
Who’s in Charge of BBC News?
The Corporation’s reporting and investigations are still essential-but now they are threatened from within
Rivers of Babylon
The great provocateur – Joan Rivers
Revolt of the TV Eunuchs
Celebrity presenters such as Jon Snow reject impartiality. But the news must not be twisted
A Saga with Staying Power
Revisiting the unsurpassed TV glories of The Forsyte Saga
Civilisation: Do we know it when we see it? He did
The presenter the BBC chooses to remake Kenneth Clark’s seminal series has a tough act to follow
Typecast by the ‘ologies
‘I know that my obituary will read “Lipman Gets Cut Off”, but I honestly thought the BT ‘ology commercials were toasted bagels-until Nigel Farage brought it all back’
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics