UK Politics Joan Bakewell’s Diary: Poems for prisoners, a virtual send-off, broadcasting from home and comfort in blooms Routines that once seemed inevitable are giving way to imaginative and comforting forms of contact. By Joan Bakewell
Diary: The summer’s musical promise, the withering of the BBC, and universities after Brexit By Joan Bakewell
Murdoch could have “media power unheard of in British history” As the News Corporation takeover of BSkyB hangs in the balance, Joan Bakewell grills Mark Thompson, By Joan Bakewell
Promises, promises for one and all With old loyalties gone, politicians must satisfy consumer appetites By Joan Bakewell
Don’t mess with our history Theme parks and films can't really tell us what it was like to be alive in the past By Joan Bakewell
The believers who despise our ways Joan Bakewell attends the German trial of an Islamic leader and fears that, across Europe, democracy By Joan Bakewell