The first programme in Series two of Mad Men was a huge disappointment. There are two kinds of TV drama series: those which are good enough to sustain a second series and those that aren't. Mad Men...

We are still in early February, and Scolari is now the eighth Premiership manager to have resigned or been fired this season. It's not hard to see why Big Phil should have filled the headlines, but...

In today's Guardian (4th February 2009), Jonathan Freedland writes about why the liberal left "must not remain silent" in the face of growing attacks on British Jews.  The article is in large part...

Sunday evening was a great moment to see two great old enthusiasts doing what they do best --  and for taking in the death of a third. First, there was David Attenborough's passionate tribute to...

  The closing of the summer transfer window provided one of the most exciting TV evenings of the year. Perhaps the most. Everyone thought Robinho was going to Chelsea and Berbatov was going...

On 11 January, AA Gill reviewed the BBC's dramatisation of 'The Diary of Anne Frank'. He ended his review: "With the violins of irony, The Diary of Anne Frank played all week against the background...

With exceptions, the British media have reported two versions of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. The Anglo-American Left, Jewish peace groups and charity workers have tended to write of an attack by...

There were two interesting points to emerge from the debate about the Disasters Emergency Committee broadcast. The first was barely noticed because the Left was so obsessed with the BBC that it...

Back in November 2004, BBC2 launched its new weekly arts programme, The Culture Show, a sort of idiot younger brother to its previous attempt at a regular arts magazine show, The Late Show. It began...

The other day Benedict Nightingale reviewed the RSC's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He began: "It’s time Gregory Doran got more credit for work at the RSC that almost always outshines...