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Short Story Review: “Gentlemen, The Queen” and “Provide for Your Poor Sisters” by Fred Urquhart.

December 17, 2022

[“An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.”] Fred Urquhart’s short stories “Gentlemen, the Queen” and “Provide For Your Poor …

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YouTube Review: BBC Earth.

July 25, 2022

[The following is an extract from a long essay about wildlife documentaries on YouTube that I had written in 2020. …

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TV Review: The Mezzotint.

December 26, 2021

This Christmas Eve the BBC showed an adaptation of a 1904 short story by M.R. James, about a group of …

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YouTube Review: GB News.

July 6, 2021

A lot of yodelling has issued from every mountaintop recently on the subject of GB News, this right-leaning, television-news channel …

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YouTube Review: BBC Earth, zefrank1 and TierZoo.

June 22, 2020

It’s a jungle out there and one in which different species must develop highly innovative strategies to compete for the …

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Podcast Review: The World At One.

April 9, 2020

Ever since the UK’s decision to leave the EU, it has become routine across the media to speak of there …

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Podcast Review: The Whisperer in Darkness.

February 5, 2020

[The following contains spoilers.] The BBC Radio 4 horror podcast “The Whisperer in Darkness” has given itself a huge jumble …

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TV Review: Martin’s Close.

December 26, 2019

“A Ghost Story for Christmas” is not merely a minor subgenre of the BBC’s drama output. It is in fact …

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Brexit: We Should Only “Negotiate” With Elected Politicians.

October 7, 2016

“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …

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Series Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

June 29, 2015

[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy is staunchly pessimistic about BBC television drama and particularly its adaptations of literary classics. It …

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Series Review: Wolf Hall.

February 26, 2015

It’s a lesson which Hilary Mantel should have surely learned along the way. One minute you are at a point …

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TV Review: The Thirteenth Tale.

December 31, 2013

[The following contains spoilers.] Days after pronouncing that the BBC have “lost the knack” of making ghost stories, Tychy is …

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TV Review: The Tractate Middoth.

December 26, 2013

Why can’t the poor old BBC make ghost stories anymore? In 1968, Jonathan Miller directed an eerie, nerve-wracking adaptation of …

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“Now over to you at Holyrood”: The White Paper on BBC News 24.

November 26, 2013

BBC News 24 presenter: And now over to Jane Hill at Holyrood for the latest on the launch of today’s …

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Scottish Independence: The Disaster Continues.

August 30, 2013

Tychy has taken a holiday from Scottish Independence over the last month, sojourning in the genuinely “better nation” of the …

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