Griffin complaint over BBC 'mob' It's hard to feel much sympathy for Nick Griffin, the leader of the right-wing British National Party, whose controversial appearance on Question Time last night provoked a sizeable demonstration outside Television Centre and led to...

Parliament and free speech: The right to know The Minton report If ever anyone were still sanguine about the right of free speech in this country, the débâcle this week concerning Trafigura, Carter-Ruck, The Guardian and Twitter should cause deep...

David Elstein: Murdoch "riled" by Ofcom According to David Elstein, formerly of, inter alia, the BBC, Thames and Channel 5, Ofcom's "devastating" and "unanswerable" report of a couple of months ago, which exposed Sky's abuse of its dominant position in...

Dear BBC: No, you can’t have my £142.50. Will I see you in court? There are really only two ways to view Mr Moore's outburst of civil disobedience. It is either a principled stand against what he believes to be...

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but the treatment of the weather bulletins on Today is getting increasingly shabby. This morning just before eight was breathtaking, even by current standards. Jim Naughtie was interviewing the Chancellor of the...

BBC funding should be cut, report says We will restore science to its rightful place, roll back the spectre of a warming planet. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run...

Sky Won't Screen Gaza Aid Appeal So Sky News has joined the BBC in deciding not to screen the Gaza appeal. Given that ITV, Channel 4 and Five, which have all demurred, don't have international audiences to worry about, it...

Apologies, people of Gaza - the BBC is a bit jumpy lately It is sometimes said, rightly or wrongly, that the BBC and the Guardian newspaper are a good fit. The Corporation certainly does quite a bit of recruitment advertising...

"Here comes counsel for the picaninny." You wouldn't get away with such language today. Not even a public servant - and even the most obnoxious guard of the cells below the esteemed courts of the Central Criminal Court, better known...