I don't personally agree that she's completely unimportant, although it's not a day for conflicts about it. Whatever her own responsibility - and she has a fair bit - the cultural pola… (View Post)

I'm also a remainer mild-monarchist and I entirely agree, She has made a huge contribution to national life and it feels a very sad kind of day. (View Post)

For Scottish PB'ers, the classic 1971 BBC Scotland adaptation of "Sunset Song" on BBC4 at the moment. After the revelation of a documentary on literature on primetine BBC2 with the Jam… (View Post)

Some real signs of progress on the BBC tonight - a programme about literature in primetime BBC2, with an Arena this time about James Joyce's Ulysees, which I haven't the channe doing since … (View Post)

Strangely that's something I would actually agree with her about, if that's right, and she doesn't want to make the restriction too early. Several other European countries with full le… (View Post)