The BBC’s Jimmy Savile drama is entirely gratuitous
The Reckoning exposes a rotten culture that serves up stories about abused women for entertainment.
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Channel 4’s “4Skills” programme: Driving inclusivity and growth in the UK’s creative economy
London’s grip on the creative jobs is loosening, opening opportunities for thousands across the nations and regions.
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Cancel culture comes to GB News
Lawrence Fox and Dan Wooton have nowhere left to hide.
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How the MeToo backlash helped Russell Brand
Also this week: Bring on by-election season, and my predictions for Strictly Come Dancing.
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Russell Brand’s career was defined by misogyny – and audiences delighted in it
What a comedian chooses to joke about is revealing – and has a bearing on the world at large.
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An audience with media power players in NYC
Also this week: medieval epidemiology, and the scourge of child sex abuse.
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Once it wins Labour can set the terms of debate
The party will be able to decide the fiscal rules it must adhere to, while the media will pivot left…
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The strange corporate rebirth of NME
The music magazine is back in print, but has no editor-in-chief and isn’t on news stands. It’s a “marketing tool”,…
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The Huw Edwards crisis has revealed the BBC’s editorial blind spot
If the corporation is to survive, it needs a robust policy for covering celebrity scandals.
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The decadent society
With the nation consumed by sleaze, the serious business of government is at a standstill.
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In praise of the DVD
The infinite choice of TV streaming has led to banality and fatigue – it’s time to embrace physical media once…
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Jeremy Clarke was a supreme chronicler of the hand-to-mouth life
I lament the loss of my fellow down-at-heel columnist. We aren’t the kind that hang around for long.
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Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation?
The founders of AI are divided over what’s next.
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My first days in charge of the Evening Standard prompt a return to office habits
Also this week: a word of warning for Sadiq Khan and reflecting on the new age of AI journalism.
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The tug of war over Boris Johnson’s honours list is also a contest for favour from the Tory press
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Keep cameras out of British courtrooms
Excessive media voyeurism can turn a sensitive case into its own content vertical – with seriously negative effects.
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The BBC degrades itself with its Phillip Schofield fixation
From an “exclusive” interview to a live feed on the This Morning presenter’s departure, the broadcaster has left its lofty…
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Succession games reach the Daily Mail
This week saw a promotion for Vere Harmsworth, a promising executive and… son of Lord Rothermere, the Daily Mail’s proprietor.
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Do we need another political podcast?
The Power Test, co-hosted by Ayesha Hazarika and Sam Freedman, will delight Westminster obsessives.
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Mourn the death of online media’s optimism and anarchy
The decline of Vice and BuzzFeed marks the end of a time it was easy to believe the internet was…
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