Yes. It's all over for him bar the shouting, I think. He could have got rid of Johnson that Monday in the Commons when the PM was patently flailing and on the ropes, but the obsession with the s… (View Post)

No wonder the Constantinople Patriarchate thinks they've gone mad. This means decades of cultural isolation, at the least, I think. (View Post)

To a certain extent the BBC and Channel 4 have some of the same problem ; the deregulatiing, rationalising and market-purist zeal was very and blunt and unsubtle in the UK during the 1990's, muc… (View Post)

Good good. I really hope this hare-brained plan is seen off. Once more people know about how Channel 4 might really be brought back to its best, then we might really be getting somewhere. (View Post)

At the end of the 1980's there was backlash against "highbrow culture" from figures such as Murdoch, who had the ear of Thatcher. Part of the restructuring of broadcasting wasn't … (View Post)