Yes. He's getting better and more mature, but ironically not signed up by the BBC any more as a standard-bearer, which sums up the current fear of subtlety and complexity. (View Post)

Michael Palin's Iraq is currently on Channel 5, which, not that widely known, is some of his best ever work. Mature and complex, and reminiscent of the older British documentary tradition. (View Post)

I have very little time for any of the indignation surroundimg this story. The Telegraph is literally the butler to vast and properly organised tax evasion. (View Post)

As we mentiomed a few weeks ago, it's notable that in yougov surveys the generations that were in their teens and ' twenties in the 60s and 90s are more nostalgic about those decades than o… (View Post)

Indeed, the hyperbole on this issue is reaching absurd proportions. This is the kind of oversight that essentially the majority of the population would have made, but just refracted through both the … (View Post)