Tag: BBC

Total Results: 74


22 Jan 2020 - 12:00am

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

Freddie Sayers

Tuesday, 14 January

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

Thursday, 26 December

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

Friday, 20 December

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

Wednesday, 18 December

18.12

Sorry, Auntie, you had it coming Boris Johnson must follow through with his threats to the institutionally anti-conservative BBC

Robin Aitken

Wednesday, 11 December

11.12

Has groupthink swung your vote? There has been little serious effort to properly explain the promises made in the parties' manifestos

Simon Evans

Tuesday, 8 October

08.10

John Humphrys will always be Auntie’s man The BBC only tolerates dissent if it is kept within certain bounds

Robin Aitken

Thursday, 19 September

19.09

Who will miss John Humphrys? In a political climate saturated with sophisticated deception, old-school sceptics help us stay connected to the truth

Giles Fraser

Friday, 13 September

13.09

‘Fake news’ is old hat in Northern Ireland The BBC's 'Spotlight on The Troubles' series shows that the decay of political language is not a new phenomenon

Douglas Murray

Wednesday, 21 August

21.08

Don’t knock Stacey Dooley

Robin Aitken

Thursday, 27 June

27.06

Our toxic pollution paranoia This is not the Great Smog of 1952

Tom Chivers

Friday, 21 June

21.06

Why should the BBC censor the public?

Douglas Murray