Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
Palin was a rare Radio 4 treat
The triumph of Michael Palin’s Book of the Week and the tragedy of Radio 4 comedy
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
