Today at the Chilcot inquiry into the war against Iraq, the former minister Claire Short revealed that Tony Blair had manipulated the gorvernment process by stifling debate in cabinet; lied to the cabinet about the weapons of mass destruction; and even...

Mrs Dalloway (1925) is probably the most accessible of Virginia Woolf's great novels. A day in the life of a London society hostess is used as the structure for her experiments in multiple points of view. The themes she explores are the nature of...

I've just finished watching the latest incarnation of BBC2's Newsnight review programme - which has conventionally looked at traditional arts subjects such as novels, plays, films, TV programmes, and even music. Everything about this programme has...

These are archive recordings taken from long-unheard BBC broadcasts and recording from the Charleston Trust, many of them published here for the first time. They come in a two-CD boxed set, accompanied by a sixteen page explanatory booklet....

When blogging first took off in the mid 1990s the mainstream media viewed bloggers with lofty contempt. I can remember both the BBC and the Guardian making sneering 'get a life' comments about bloggers daring to report their own version of news. Now,...