The Grayling appointment seemed to be a mixture of clear and brazen provocation, and a more subtle calculus of the more malleable uses of a less intellectually dominating figure. In other words, Clas… (View Post)

The BBC's reporting on social issues like the use of foodbanks , for instance, has been strikingly timid and fearful, compared to how it would have handled such issues in the 1980's. I thin… (View Post)

BBC News has moved to the right on economo-political issues, and to the left on identity and representation issues. The non-news output is dominated nowadays by a commercial mindset, rather than the … (View Post)

Contrary to tabloid mythology, this is partly because the Conservatives of the late 1980s and early 1990s destroyed much that was conservative about the BBC. Sometimes patrician highbrow cultural val… (View Post)

Seems about 2 inches shorter in Italy and Greece, in my experience. (View Post)