September 18, 2020

The BBC needs to sack the suits Timid and out of touch, it is churning out banal bulletins and screwing up digital output

Ian Birrell

24.04

Can British media steer clear of the American sewer? Political TV hosts in America are obsequious, self-congratulatory and inadequate — let's not copy them

Douglas Murray

20.04

The unhappy truth about surrogacy BBC drama <i>The Nest</I> romanticises — and normalises — the renting of women's wombs

Julie Bindel

23.03

The BBC is having a good coronavirus war The broadcaster has rediscovered its original purpose: uniting a divided nation

Robin Aitken

19.03

‘This Country’ is a modern TV miracle The lives of rural people often go unnoticed, unspoken and undocumented

Barney Norris

04.03

What is the BBC worth? The licence fee is a relic from a long-gone age, and there are no good arguments left for keeping it

Maajid Nawaz

30.01

How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral A process of moral outbidding is corroding small communities from within

Gavin Haynes

30.01

Lessons in longevity from Nicholas Parsons The steadfast familiarity of the <I>Just a Minute</I> host is what another of our great institutions is lacking

Simon Evans

22.01

Cultural heroes, please stay out of politics The finest minds lose all their nuance when they get political on Twitter

Freddie Sayers

14.01

How the BBC could wield soft power The broadcaster could be be an effective instrument of influence — but it needs to raise its game

Mary Dejevsky

26.12

How I was cancelled by Doctor Who The BBC has been taken over by the woke — and this mania has infected the institutions of public and cultural life across the West

Gareth Roberts

20.12

How Lefty luvvies lost the plot The creative sector is now so woke and insular that it’s incapable even of recognising an oppositional voice

Gareth Roberts