Lord Reith
The trouble with Auntie
An incalculable number of trees have been hewn down recently in order to provide paper for people writing lengthy, largely…
Bloated Biased Correct
The BBC was created out of the ether in 1922. Its first director general, Lord Reith, inhabited a cupboard some…
Arab spring
Last weekend BBC Arabic celebrated 77 years since John Reith (as he then was) launched the first foreign-language service of…
Stale, male and beyond the pale
This has all the appearance of a book invented by a publisher. Two years ago W. Sydney Robinson published an…









