My hero Tom Stoppard
A man with more charm than anyone I have ever met
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Mark Damazer
Mark Damazer is a former Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford, and a former controller of BBC Radio 4
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Mark Damazer’s diary: Why Springsteen is still the Boss, talking Booker and my struggles with Covid
Since catching coronavirus, any food that doesn’t taste of sawdust or disgustingly bitter has become a great luxury.
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Why Charles Moore and Paul Dacre would be disastrous for the BBC
Boris Johnson has proposed appointing two men who have spent their careers questioning our national broadcaster’s existence.
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Escaping the nightmare of history and learning to love Germany
Many of the author’s family perished in the Holocaust and his parents viewed Germany with great suspicion. But today…
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The Emily Maitlis row shows the BBC can stray from impartiality, but it acted fast to apologise
The Newsnight host’s criticism of Dominic Cummings was more worthy of a columnist than a BBC presenter.
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The American sports start-up the Athletic is disrupting papers as Sky did the legacy broadcasters
It is all about quality and original content.
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The dangers of meritocracy
Why the supposed cure for social inequality is making life worse for everyone – even its apparent winners.
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The myth of mass togetherness
Unicorns romp through the Brexit debate. We have become accustomed to hearing their calling sounds on our current affairs…
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Why those who say they are acting in “the national interest“ often aren’t
The phrase dominates our politics, but its true meaning escapes us in this era of self-interested politicians and Brexit…
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