The Dubai influencer craze can’t end quick enough
Marcus Fakana, a British 18 year old, has been in prison in the United Arab Emirates since December. His crime?…
Why is the BBC so obsessed with Munroe Bergdorf?
Can the BBC do anything right? Just days before it messed up spectacularly by failing to cut away from Bob…
Why Coronation Street shows the future of TV is doomed
In what looks like an act of remarkable stinginess, bosses at ITV have reportedly cancelled the traditional freebie summer party…
JK Rowling’s takedown of Boy George was a joy to behold
Few things are more delicious to watch than an uneven battle of wits – and it is hard to imagine…
Dawn French’s Gaza video is unforgivable
Like all of you, I’m sure, I’ve got accustomed to celebrities – particularly actors and comedians, but also pop stars…
Doctor Who needs a break
Twenty years on from its spectacular revival it looks like Doctor Who might not be returning to our screens again…
End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough
Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march…
Will Gary Lineker please take the BBC with him when he goes?
They think it’s all over … well, it is now. We’ve had false alarms about Gary Lineker leaving the BBC…
Why has the BBC’s gay dating show got a trans contestant?
‘The UK’s first ever gay dating show is louder, prouder, and more irresistible than ever,’ says the BBC about I Kissed…
The National Theatre just gets worse and worse
The new artistic director of the National Theatre is Indhu Rubasingham, who this weekend told the Sunday Times what to expect…
How Ian Hislop failed the gender test
Ian Hislop has found someone to blame for Have I Got News For You‘s failure to tackle the Supreme Court’s…
The hypocrisy of Virgin Atlantic’s flights to Saudi Arabia
I’m always a little perplexed when people say they wish they could travel through time. Because you can – nowadays,…
Have I Got News for You is a sad, unfunny spectacle
Like most people, I haven’t tuned in to Have I Got News For You for years. But when I heard…
The sad death of ITV
The slow death of ITV makes for painful viewing. In its glory days of the 1980s and 1990s, the channel…
Bring back gory book covers!
Looking for a light, breezy read? If you happened to be browsing the bestseller bookshelves this summer your eye might…
The cringeworthiness of showing Adolescence in schools
It’s not even a month since Adolescence ‘dropped’ on to Netflix and into all our lives, whether we actually watched…
I’m woke right. Maybe you are too
Has the very online left, the bane of our times, been usurped by the very online right? It’s a poetically…
What happened to trash TV escapism?
In bleak times, Brits could rely on light entertainment to get them through. George Formby and Vera Lynn made the…
Stormzy isn’t cool
Stormzy has finally completed the journey from super-cool to super-cringe. The rapper, once the symbol of youthful rebellion, is to…
The plight of James O’Brien
Pity poor James O’Brien. The long-suffering remainer has always had a raw, fiery quality unusual in the British phone-in host.…
The sad truth about the BBC
When will the BBC get a grip? The corporation which, remember, is funded by licence payers, appears to be strangely…
The Trump-Zelensky clash was the most awkward TV in decades
The visits of Keir Starmer and president Zelensky to the Oval Office last week were both agonising to behold, in…
Why Brits keep getting a tongue lashing from Team Trump
So much for the Special Relationship. Since Donald Trump took office in January, Brits have been taking quite a tongue-lashing…
Why the Germans don’t do it better
Germany, not so very long ago, was the example of how to do it. Shiningly spotless and effortlessly efficient –…
Andrew Gwynne and the truth about WhatsApp
Labour MP Andrew Gwynne has been sacked from the cabinet, and suspended from the party, for sending ‘vile’ WhatsApp messages.…
