How the tabloids outed George Michael
A new Channel 4 doc explores the media’s glee at the singer’s arrest for “lewd acts” in 1998. But in…
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Channel 4’s Consent starkly illustrates the sexual harassment epidemic in schools
Adults must watch this drama, which demonstrates how schools’ failure to address a toxic classroom culture enables violence.
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Everyone Else Burns attempts “edgy” comedy – but ends up predictable
Like so many supposedly funny shows just lately, this sitcom about an extreme Christian sect isn’t funny enough.
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Vardy v Rooney: how Wagatha Christie went from farce to legend
Who is watching this Channel 4 drama who hasn’t already inhaled every detail of the Rebekah Vardy-Coleen Rooney trial?
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What David Baddiel doesn’t get about anti-Semitism
Saying “Jews don’t count” separates us from other minorities, rather than uniting us in search of progress.
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Channel 4’s Made in the 80s shows how history repeats itself
High inflation, endless strikes, the spectre of nuclear war: it doesn’t take a genius to notice the painful similarities.
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Nadine Dorries could be barred from House of Lords over “brutal” select committee report
MPs appear set to condemn the former culture secretary for misleading them by claiming participants in a Channel 4 reality…
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Politics is not a joke. But middle-class Brits treat it like one
Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You gave rise to a chummy, point-scoring attitude that harms us…
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Big egos and cringe pitches: Make Me Prime Minister is The Apprentice for politics
Yes, the news is here to corrupt television’s most valiantly exhausted format. Should weary audiences tune in?
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Why we will never understand Ghislaine Maxwell
Channel 4’s documentary is the latest in a long line of TV shows attempting to explain why she did what…
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Channel 4 can be saved from privatisation – here’s how
If opposition parties committed to renationalising the broadcaster, it could kill the Tory plan stone dead.
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James Graham: privatising Channel 4 is the solution to a problem that doesn’t exist
The channel costs the taxpayer nothing, roughly breaks even, and operates the largest free-to-view streaming service in the UK. The…
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Commons Confidential: Jealous Johnson’s poppy-lopping
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Privatising Channel 4 is bad business, bad politics and bad Conservatism
Nadine Dorries’s desire for state interference in a successful enterprise is the antithesis of what the Tories claim to represent.
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