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Conserving ignorance
Is it ever worth responding to a Peter Hitchens piece? The New Statesman invited him to provide the counterpoint to Medhi Hassan’s “actually, the BBC is right-wing” argument. Hassan’s feature is – I...
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Jeremy Hunt and the BBC: your ballot or your job
The BBC should be more right-wing, says shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt. And to counter what he sees as the organisation’s “innate liberal bias” he wants the BBC to start actively recruiting...
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Jon Snow: bring in privacy law, finish off the tabs
Channel 4 news anchor Jon Snow comes out in favour of privacy restrictions on reporting in this Guardian interview with Ann Widdecombe. And strongly in favour, too, even disallowing the public...
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Oh, Pond
In all the expansive, improbable interior of the TARDIS, there’s one thing it definitely doesn’t have: a careers advice bureau. Lack of appropriate guidance is the only way to explain Amy Pond’s...
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Hands up if you hate Lars von Trier
This review of Lars von Trier’s series The Kingdom was originally published in DVD And Blu-ray Review. Hands up if you hate Lars von Trier. Don’t feel guilty – if there’s one thing his career has...
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Are we there yet?
28 October 2011: November will see the premiere of Pan Am on BBC2. It is a soft-focus drama series, bought from America, about the adventures of a group of Pan Am stewardesses in the 1960s. It is all...
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Sky News Sunrise: extreme diets
I snuck my way onto Sky News Sunrise yesterday morning to talk about the perils of extreme diets – in this case, a nasogastric tube diet, which I wrote about in a piece for the Guardian. My giant news...
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Feminist fantasies
I’ve got a lot of time for good people. If I can choose who I spend my days with, I’ll always pick the good people over the evil, murderous, power-hungry ones. Life’s just nicer with good people. But...
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Y’know, for kids
The bafflement about JK Rowling’s new, not-Potter novel is scrawled on the face of every reviewer. I haven’t read The Casual Vacancy, but I can tell you that it includes sex, drugs and social issues. I...
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Girl-on-Girls crime: Moran and Dunham vs feminism
I wonder why Caitlin Moran didn’t ask Lena Dunham about the absence of black characters in Dunham’s HBO sitcom Girls when the journalist interviewed the showrunner for The Times. It’s been a...
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No-platforming and Newsnight
Sorry, Newsnight. When your researcher rang up yesterday and said, “We’re planning a debate on whether it makes sense to talk about ‘brain sex’ regarding the Kellie Maloney news, would you like to come...
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New Humanist | What does Utopia tell us about our attitudes to disaster? |...
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4827/what-does-utopia-tell-us-about-our-attitudes-to-disasterFiled under: Family, Politics, TV, Writing
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