GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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The War Against the BBC
Why we should care about the right-wing assault on public-service broadcasting
INTO BATTLE: Boris Johnson arrives for a BBC interview
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
PRIOR to reading The War Against the BBC by Patrick Barwise and Peter York, I have to admit to not being the BBC’s biggest fan. I have long regarded the Corporation as hostile to the left, with a notable recent chapter in this process being some of the appalling treatment of Jeremy Corbyn.
But, having read the book, the importance of defending the BBC against an unholy coalition ranging from the likes of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, Rupert Murdoch and a number of spurious right-wing think tanks becomes all the more apparent.
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