With no decision on News Corp's BSkyB takeover expected from Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt until next week or later, speculation continues about what happens if regulators say the deal-breaker - hiving off Sky News as a separate company on the stock market - won't work... more
Even more unpopular just now than Arab dictators are television executives. In the wake of Miriam O'Reilly's ageism row come the mass howls of the ripe and slighted... more
A lobby group representing the professions will be preening itself at Vince Cable’s public backing for their point of view, that limiting immigration will harm business... more
Don’t you love how Lord Mandelson can be impressive and preposterous at the same time? His attacks on the opposition are clever but over-theatrical... more
BBC director-general Mark Thompson claims £647.50 of public money on one night's stay at a five-star Las Vegas hotel featured in the George Clooney film Ocean's Eleven... more
Alan Yentob is in defiant mood. After a torrid few weeks in which the BBC has come under attack for everything from sacking a 66-year-old woman to running up extravagant expense claims, Mr Yentob, one of the corporation's veteran executives, has clearly decided enough is enough.... more
Controller of BBC One will not be investigated for her involvement in running a media company which makes money teaching the corporation's own presenters, bosses said... more
Gordon Ramsay is not the only high-profile celebrity chef having a hard time of it. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the old Etonian contemporary of David Cameron, is not exactly flush with cash.... more
Former political journalist John Sergeant shocked BBC bosses by leaving Strictly Come Dancing despite massive support from the public. The 64-year-old had many viewers behind him despite constand criticism from the judges.... more
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