Fi and Jane: live and uncensored
Former BBC stalwarts Jane Garvey and Fi Glover have moved to Times Radio. Is it more of the same?
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How “deliver” became an unavoidable political buzzword
On 5 September, Liz Truss declared, “we will deliver, we will deliver, and we will deliver”. What, if anything, does…
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Underestimate local radio at your peril, Liz Truss
It was a mistake to absent herself from the Today programme, believing she’d have an easier time elsewhere.
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From Jeffrey Dahmer to Adnan Syed: can true crime as entertainment ever be ethical?
Real life crime stories have long been treated as entertainment, but with the rise of global phenomenons like Serial and…
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True crime’s legal pay-offs give it a righteous gloss – but it’s still only shallow, manipulative entertainment
The thrill of the genre is that it lends a factual story a dramatic twist. In fact, it is as…
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The right-wing press were dismayed by the lack of dissent from the royalist consensus
The BBC let them down so badly that even the Daily Mail was compelled to admit that the broadcaster “caught…
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How to play the Queen
Elizabeth II’s reign was shaped by television. How will portrayals of her on screen determine her legacy?
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Olivia Wilde discovers Hollywood misogyny is as virulent as ever
Gossip from the set of Don’t Worry Darling shows the outrageous standards female filmmakers are still held to.
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What Emily Maitlis did next
The News Agents sees former BBC presenters finding their voice – and also their feet – in the world of…
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Why everyone wants to be friends with Edward Enninful
The editor of British Vogue is one of a select few magazine editors who has come to transcend his title.
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Spin to win your energy bills? We’re living in a Black Mirror dystopia
This Morning’s tone-deaf prize shows up our late-capitalist hellscape.
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How University Challenge became a British institution
In its 60 years on the air, this arcane and obscure programme has become the nation’s best-known and longest-running quiz…
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Of course what Joe Lycett said wasn’t funny – that’s literally the point
What was he supposed to do – joke about how people will freeze to death?
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Critics accuse the BBC of bias, but its reporters never bow to political pressure
My time at the broadcaster has been marked by successive governments trying to make the BBC their messenger. It hasn’t…
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The BBC has a problem – but not the one Emily Maitlis thinks
By kowtowing to its enemies the BBC is alienating its friends.
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Emily Maitlis knows what’s up at the BBC
Tory bias is real – just ask Robbie Gibb.
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Why do we still have a problem with “unlikeable” female characters?
Warning: this article contains discussion of an imperfect woman.
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The only winners of Wagatha Christie are the tabloids
Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy wouldn’t be in court if not for the press, and the press will reap the…
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Bertrand Russell, YouTube star
The stately philosopher’s online fame reveals Gen Z as a demographic desperate for certainty.
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Social media’s consent problem
We may have opted in to social media but we have not – could never have – agreed to everything…
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