Roger Harrabin’s Radio 4 “Uncertain Climate”
This show sounded like a major apologia and a minor mea culpa from the BBC's chief climate change analyst . It was, though, mostly depressingly familiar. Read more...
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“Welcome To Lagos”: They can keep it
There is an enormous amount to be said for Africa. Stoicism and good humour would be right up there as attributes which abound. Famously, Nigerians have all that in spades. Last night's BBC film concentrated on a Lagos rubbish dump and its scavengers. Read more...
The British and Ronald Searle
Searle is 90 tomorrow and Channel 4 News ran a tribute interview. Typically, the commentary had to have a little attitudinising. Read more...
Top TV shows of the noughties
Here, roughly in order, are my top TV shows of the noughties. Surely a vintage period? Read more...
Dominick Dunne: what a story
The late Dominick Dunne, novelist and chronicler of celebrity trials, was by parts Taki, Jennifer's Diary, The Sunday Times Insight team, Edith Wharton, Thackeray, and J J Hunsecker (of The Sweet Smell of Success). Read more...
BBC is nearly history now
The BBC won't survive the next five years without massive changes. It'll get (or keep) a lot less licence fee. It is much weaker than it ever has been. It is likely to be privatised. Read more...
Jon Snow’s righteous indignation
I never quite know whether Jon Snow is genuinely quaking with rage when he cranks up the aggression from time to time. Anyway, his outrage over MP's allowances is hard to take. Read more...
Stay home, David Shukman of the BBC!
The Galapagos Islands are under threat from mass tourism and climate change, says David Shukman, reporting from them for the BBC's Today Programme this morning. Read more...
Don’t let the state subsidise local papers
Alan Rusbridger has suggested that the tax-payer ought to subsidise local newspapers. This is a very bad idea. Even my proposed National Media Trust should not do that. Read more...
New reports bolster a National Media Trust
The latest Ofcom report and the new Reuters Institute book in their different ways bolster the case for a National Media Trust. They don't know it, of course. Read more...