Just to add to the below, I was also actually involved in the late '90s period of a switchover to a much more commercialised, lifestyle and reality-led ethos, which is when I left the sector. The Fre… (View Post)

My posr below clarifies what I meant a bit below on something like a policy continuum, rather than actual interlude. Having worked in broadcasting at the time, and as I've mentioned quite a few times… (View Post)

No, I mean more than it felt like a continuum in some policy ways, before Major tried to moderate the national tone a bit, later on There was some kind of damaging ardent, late-Thatcherite dogma at t… (View Post)

And not just under Democrats. Reagan and Bush kept a careful eye on this sort of thing, too. Britain has yet to learn, as Will Hutton pointed out last week in his crucial article on the buying out, a… (View Post)

Likewise, and at the other end of the scale, French politics and society only tend to get much coverage at moments of crisis, or election. The result is that British people often have the wholly fals… (View Post)