BBC

The BBC’s new direction

10 September 2022 9:00 am

I am becoming terribly worried about the people of Sunderland with regard to how they will cope in this coming…

Why we must defend Radio 3 from threatened cuts

27 August 2022 9:00 am

Who doesn’t love Eurovision? All that razzmatazz. The ghastly frocks and gloopy pop songs, the false bonhomie and bare-faced bias…

Why political interviews matter

27 August 2022 9:00 am

She’ll never do it. She’d have to be mad. Why take the risk? That’s what everyone said when I announced…

Has the lab leak theory really been disproved?

28 July 2022 1:19 am

The BBC carried a story this week with the headline ‘Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market’. Bizarrely…

Letters: What William Blake meant

23 July 2022 9:00 am

Procurement profligacy Sir: In response to Susan Hill’s query ‘Who allows the profligacy in NHS hospital procurement to continue?’ (‘Best…

‘Our’ by ‘our’, Boris’s resignation speech

16 July 2022 9:00 am

There was a word I didn’t understand in Boris Johnson’s resignation speech (in which he did not resign). He spoke…

How the BBC was captured by trans ideology

2 July 2022 4:24 pm

During Pride month this year a banner has been emblazoned across the BBC’s internal staff website used by every single…

The cruelty of reality TV was part of the appeal

28 May 2022 9:00 am

Jade Goody appeared on Big Brother in 2002. She was a short, loud, blonde-haired woman who broadcast her every thought…

The best TV spy drama since Smiley’s People: Apple TV+'s Slow Horses reviewed

14 May 2022 9:00 am

How thriller writers must miss the Cold War! Early John le Carré and Len Deighton had it easy when trying…

The BBC’s obsession with youth

14 May 2022 9:00 am

At long last the state of Oregon has got around to installing tampon machines in the male lavatories of its…

Nadine Dorries: My vision for the BBC

30 April 2022 9:00 am

Nadine Dorries on online safety, the BBC and taking risks

An impeccably rule-observing programme from the BBC: Art That Made Us reviewed

9 April 2022 9:00 am

Art That Made Us is an ambitious new series, firmly in the ‘history of something in a load of different…

The most disadvantaged group in Britain? White working-class men

9 April 2022 9:00 am

I’m not sure what to think about the BBC’s announcement that it wants a quarter of its staff to be…

New Marr is very much the same as the old Marr: LBC's Tonight With Andrew Marr reviewed

12 March 2022 9:00 am

Andrew Marr got his voice back this week. That may come as a bit of a surprise to everybody who’s…

My escape from Kiev

5 March 2022 9:00 am

My relief – and guilt – at getting out of Ukraine

Why we shouldn't ban Russia Today

23 February 2022 11:49 pm

Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary, has written to Ofcom urging it to keep the situation with Russia Today ‘very carefully…

Where’s the ‘mystery’ in mystery plays?

19 February 2022 9:00 am

In The Archers, Ambridge put on its own set of mystery plays dramatising the Nativity and Passion. BBC Radio 4…

Storm Eunice has nothing to do with climate change

18 February 2022 10:50 pm

I sat tight and braced myself for the worst this morning — not high winds but for the Today programme…

Letters: The BBC licence fee is a protection racket

29 January 2022 9:00 am

Russia’s star Sir: Wolfgang Münchau is surely right to highlight the risk posed to European peace and stability by Germany’s…

Disappointingly conventional and linear: BBC radio's modernism season reviewed

29 January 2022 9:00 am

This week marks the beginning of modernism season on BBC Radio 3 and 4, which means it’s time for some…

The real problem with the BBC’s partygate coverage

23 January 2022 6:00 pm

As a journalist, it’s never a comfortable feeling when the news organisation you work for becomes the story. But with…

The TV licence is a dead duck

22 January 2022 9:00 am

‘Tell me we’re winning the media battle!’ I imagine Unilever boss Alan Jope barking at his team on Tuesday, following…

Why we still need the BBC

22 January 2022 9:00 am

The BBC must ask itself if Nadine Dorries has a point

Is this the BBC's best defence?

18 January 2022 2:17 am

Proposals by Nadine Dorries to scrap the BBC licence fee have produced something of a meltdown over at Broadcasting House.…

The BBC is killing cricket

15 January 2022 9:00 am

Full homage to the nail-biting cricketing miracle in Sydney, while bearing in mind that miracles, like lightning, rarely strike twice…