Tag: BBC

Total Results: 74


The greats, James Naughtie and John Humphrys, didn't need an elite education. Credit: Bill Robinson/Radio Times/Getty Images
2 Jun 2021 - 1:05am

Oxbridge is killing journalism Group-thinking graduates are part of the establishment

Justin Webb

Wednesday, 30 December

30.12

Stop bad-mouthing the BBC The War Against the BBC: Like it or not, the majority of Brits trust — and value — Auntie

Sam Leith

Monday, 23 November

23.11

The Left’s obsession with subjectivity To properly understand the world we must use data and logic — not only anecdote

David Goodhart

Monday, 19 October

19.10

What Mary Whitehouse got right Ridiculed for being on the wrong side of history, her time is now

Louise Perry

Friday, 18 September

18.09

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

Friday, 24 April

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

Monday, 20 April

20.04

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

Julie Bindel

Monday, 23 March

23.03

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

Robin Aitken

Thursday, 19 March

19.03

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

Barney Norris

Wednesday, 4 March

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

Thursday, 30 January

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