The Hockney ‘experience’. ‘Bigger and Closer’, is like going to a three-dimensional 50-minute retrospective.
Category: media
London to the faraway towns
The story about the radio producer Charles Parker, who made the radio ballads in the 1950s and 1960s, is that … More
Fitting up the news
Thanks to my colleague Tomi Isaacs for alerting me to Charlie Brooker’s fine parody of the typical television news report. … More
The English murder
In The Decline of the English Murder, written 60 years ago, George Orwell reflected on how murder reflected the times. … More
Dog bites man
When I was a trainee journalist, we went through that exercise where we worked out what news was. “Dog bites … More
Good men die like dogs
I’ve been tidying today, and came across a photocopy of something someone sent me just after I left the TV … More