David Cameron may think he is under pressure from Eurosceptics in the Tory party this week but compared with John Major in his final years as Prime Minister, he is having it easy... more
Interview: Mild-mannered Radio 4 presenter Evan Davis tells Richard Godwin what he really thinks about homosexual rights, the state of the economy and the big beasts on the Today programme... more
Veteran broadcaster John Simpson explains the reasons behind a number of BBC newsmen marrying younger women and starting new families in their advancing years
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Harbinger of doom David "Danny" Blanchflower says it is "perfectly feasible" that the economy will shrink again in the first and second quarters of 2011 after the slump at the end of 2010... more
Date for the diary. Tax Freedom Day, the day of the year on which average taxpayers stop working for the Government and start working for themselves, will be May 30... more
You can leave London but it won’t get out of your system. Here two high-profile media personalities who have tried country living reveal why they still love life in the capital.... more
In The Air: The Daily Telegraph investigation of MPs’ expenses won virtually every category for which it was nominated at last night’s British Press Awards... more
There was undoubtedly a general air of self-congratulation after the publication of the Social Attitudes Survey this week, the one that showed Britons are cool in their attitudes to homosexuality and marital status. Cue universal preening among the pundits... more
BBC presenter John Humphrys has failed to halt a housing scheme that threatens to drive a recording studio and the Innocent smoothies factory out of west London... more
Figures from Radio Joint Audience Research reveal that Radio 3 has broken the two million listener mark and that Radio 4 is reaching more than 10 million people a week ... more
Labour peer George Foulkes can be a canny political operator but his attempt to divert attention from the snouts-in-the-trough scandal currently engulfing Parliament won't work... more
Today and tomorrow a Commons committee will be running what has been trailed as the credit-crunch Nuremberg. Public sympathy for the bankers in the dock will be near zero. London is sneering, gloating, angry and vengeful over their fate. When a hapless minister said on radio she hoped bankers would feel a "moral" pressure not to take bonuses this year, John Humphrys cried with characteristic BBC impartiality, "Morals? I should think hell would freeze over first." ... more
Why is it so difficult for bankers to say sorry? On the Today programme on Friday even John Humphrys lamented the fact that no one in the City can admit fault and utter the "s" word. ... more
London still exports hit formats all over the world and is a hothouse for the use of new technologies in tandem with traditional creative talents.
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News at Ten presenter Mark Austin has joined the debate over whether newsreaders should have experienced journalistic backgrounds or be nothing more than "autocue lovelies"... more
TV presenter Esther Rantzen talks speaks about how her revelation of child abuse in the BBC programme Childwatch in the Eighties sparked of years of political correctness. ... more
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