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How to Make History Badly
Far from revealing what has gone wrong with American politics, Simon Schama’s new series shows what has gone wrong with British television
ONLINE ONLY: Situation Normal
Generation Kill, its critics and the messy reality of war
The Triumph of the Internet
With audiences turning to the online world, television is caught in a deadly web
ONLINE ONLY: Genius in the Streets
The Wire may be the best television ever made, but is it truly Dickensian?
Self-Censorship And The BBC
The London Bombers was a major drama-documentary about 7/7 of which the BBC should have been proud
Jon Snow and the Gilded Cage
Channel 4 News’s anchorman has to disguise his political bias as neutrality, a pretence that is both insidious and unmanly
All Satirical Passion Spent
Thatcherism provoked great TV but the makers of Headcases are too liberal, too condescending and not nearly angry enough
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities