Andrew Billen - The French connection
By Andrew Billen - 08 March 13:00

Television - A first-class documentary about immigration finally gets an airing by Andrew Billen

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Save the editor who gave me hell
By Charlie Lee-Potter - 01 March 13:00

Observations on BBC journalism

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Straight eye for the queer guy
By Simon Fanshawe - 01 March 13:00

Gays have legal rights now, but no dress sense. So can they still do a make-over on other men? By Si

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At the end of the day, it's early doors
By Andrew Billen - 01 March 13:00

Television - Shane Watson is reminded how tricky it can be to pull off that Fak

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Nanny bans Greg Dyke
By John Kampfner - 23 February 13:00

Observations on child protection

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Reality bites
By Andrew Billen - 23 February 13:00

Television - Mike Bullen's version of life at 40 tells only half the story

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Will the court convict the judge?
By David Cox - 16 February 13:00

By holding an inquiry into the Hutton charges, the BBC's acting head may finish his own career. By D

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Watching brief - Amanda Platell has sisterly advice for Tessa Jowell
By Amanda Platell - 16 February 13:00

Tessa Jowell shouldn't take back what she said about Campbell's macho style: the only thing voters h

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Wings of desire
By Andrew Billen - 16 February 13:00

Television - An anachronistic vision of Reagan-era America fails to convert Andrew Billen

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A sepulchral chill in the soul. Although published in 1869, Sentimental Education now reads as the first major novel of the 20th century. Flaubert managed to draw a portrait of a secular metropolitan world that was new in his time, but has become the subs
By Pankaj Mishra - 16 February 13:00

Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert; translated by Robert Baldick Penguin Classics, 479pp,

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Darcus Howe - sticks up for the BBC
By Darcus Howe - 09 February 13:00

If the BBC is in trouble, it will undermine the rest of British broadcasting

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I follow Burchill, not Jordan
By Rosie Millard - 09 February 13:00

Observations on role models

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A Shameless travesty
By Peter Dunn - 09 February 13:00

Observations on television and poverty

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After Hutton - Dyke and Campbell: spot the difference
By George Walden - 09 February 13:00

The BBC director general and his chief enemy in Downing Street were both part of the vulgarisation o

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Let women save the BBC
By David Cox - 09 February 13:00

Behind the scenes, female executives warned that machismo would get the corporation in trouble. With

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Casualties of war
By Andrew Billen - 09 February 13:00

Television - Andrew Billen on why, post-Hutton, we need a gutsy BBC more urgently than ever

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Class conscious - Andrew Martin is proud not to be watching I'm a Celebrity. . .
By Andrew Martin - 09 February 13:00

I have still not seen I'm a Celebrity . . . - and several other proud boasts

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The Hutton report - Fear and loathing at the BBC
By David Cox - 02 February 13:00

If the nation's biggest broadcaster got most of the blame for the Kelly affair, it was an accident w

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How to stop the TV cheats
By David Cox - 02 February 13:00

Observations on media regulation by David Cox,/B>

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Clinical oppression
By Andrew Billen - 02 February 13:00

Television - Andrew Billen finds there's no place for romance on a 12-step recovery programme

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The last laugh
By John Morrison - 02 February 13:00

Sunshine on Putty: the golden age of British comedy from Vic Reeves to The Office

Ben Tho

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Charlie Whelan says . . .
By Charlie Whelan - 26 January 13:00

Don't believe it - "Televised lobby will end culture of secrecy"

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Sound effects
By Richard Cork - 26 January 13:00

Art - Richard Cork finds the BBC's latest commission is in tune with the times

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Trouble in parasite paradise
By Andrew Billen - 26 January 13:00

Television - Andrew Billen surrenders to the tragic comedy of Paul Abbott's shameless family

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Moving images
By Sukhdev Sandhu - 26 January 13:00

Hide in Plain Sight: the Hollywood blacklistees in film and television 1950-2002

Paul Buhle and D

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A strange kind of normality
By David Edwards and David Cromwell - 19 January 13:00

Observations on media

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Woman trouble
By Andrew Billen - 19 January 13:00

Television - Andrew Billen on a series emphasising Alan Clark's unconsummated passions

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NS Profile - Today programme listeners
By David Cox - 12 January 13:00

The audience of BBC Radio's morning show may not be as liberal as we thought, but it is deadly serio

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When Homer met Tony
By Andrew Billen - 12 January 13:00

Television - Andrew Billen applauds the PM's judgement in agreeing to appear on The Simpsons

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America - Andrew Stephen feels sorry for Rush Limbaugh
By Andrew Stephen - 05 January 13:00

Only a very cruel country would make a drug addict the target of derision, even when the addict happ

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