Joan Bakewell: “I can live with death – how odd”
As the broadcaster approaches 90, she reflects on her mother, the media and “her version” of her affair with Harold…
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Top Gear is finished
Even before Flintoff’s tragic accident, the BBC show’s macho speed stunts felt outdated and gratuitous.
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Former Today editor backs BBC boss over Lineker treatment
Jamie Angus is the first to raise his head above the parapet for Tim Davie – but thinks many BBC…
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Fifty years after Picasso’s death, we still struggle with the figure of the monstrous genius
The Musée Picasso Paris’s collaboration with Paul Smith attempts to reframe the great artist. Plus: another backlash for the BBC.
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Gary Lineker’s “special agreement” with Tim Davie
Agent Jon Holmes reveals in the New Statesman that the presenter understood he could tweet freely about refugees and immigration.
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Gary Lineker’s tweet, the BBC’s panic, and why I was left to “sort it out”
As the Match of the Day host’s agent, I had a busy week at the centre of the impartiality storm.
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Fear and loathing at the BBC
In an era of fake news and hyperpartisan media, the rationale for a public-service broadcaster is stronger than ever.
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Fiona Bruce is being scapegoated for our ignorance
Blame media law or at least Stanley Johnson for the BBC presenter’s misspeak on Question Time.
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Tim Davie and Richard Sharp have lost the BBC dressing room
Staff at the broadcaster hold its director-general and chairman in contempt.
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How much longer can Richard Sharp last as BBC chairman?
The Tory-led furore over Gary Lineker and impartiality has only succeeded in making Sharp’s position appear even more untenable.
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The BBC needs to stop being its own worst enemy
The corporation must stand up to Conservative bullying and prioritise fairness over an impossible standard of impartiality.
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Gary Lineker played into the hands of the BBC’s right-wing enemies
Those who want to defund a vital national institution have emerged stronger from this saga.
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David Attenborough’s Wild Isles makes me proud to be British, despite everything
The new series, which roams from Shetland to Cornwall to Northern Ireland to capture our wildlife, is the BBC at…
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Sack him or back him, the BBC cannot win the row over Gary Lineker
Whatever decision Tim Davie makes, he is bound to outrage around half of the British public and a good number…
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When will the BBC get over its fear of the right-wing press?
The Gary Lineker affair has proved the corporation still takes its lead from the same papers that want to destroy…
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The Weigh Up explores life after anorexia
This BBC Sounds podcast is a first-person account of how recovery from the eating disorder is possible.
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In defence of Gary Lineker
How is he the villain for criticising Suella Braverman’s cruel refugee plan?
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Gary Lineker’s pre-emptive strike at BBC head Tim Davie
No one is going to stop the presenter tweeting his opinion.
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Gary Lineker: “The BBC can’t stop me talking about politics”
The Match of the Day presenter on impartiality, disapproval over his pay, and the freedom of podcasting.
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Hugo Blick’s masterful drama The English has left me in slack-jawed awe
I love how Emily Blunt holds a gun in this ultraviolent, suspenseful series set in the American West in the…
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