BY PAUL T HORGAN Prince Harry has been in the news quite a lot, and the media seem to be in the process of casting him as the latest incarnation of the dissolute minor royal, a cause of embarrassment to the monarchy, perhaps even calling the monarchy into question. T’was ever thus. This is unfair. Harry has spent his adult life being overshadowed by his older … Continue reading In Defence of Prince Harry
BY PAUL T HORGAN One aspect of the current situation is that television viewers have been treated to a rather limited version of Through the Keyhole. The original programme had sauce impresario Lloyd Grossman touring the well-appointed interior of someone’s dwelling, inviting viewers to guess the occupant. The modern version is the inadvertent consequence of people having to appear on television while also practising self-isolation. Rather … Continue reading Bookcase Wars
BY PAUL T HORGAN The BBC seems to have fallen into bad habits in its news coverage of the current pandemic. Being a natural disaster rather than a scandal or a government crisis, it has been necessary for the state broadcaster to defer to the technical commentary of experts. The experts to whom the BBC defers have been, for the most part, Labour activists of … Continue reading Behind BBC Bias
