It was one of the most tragic and astonishing scandals of our time. The revelations just over a decade ago that Jimmy Savile, one of Britain’s best-known entertainers, was a paedophile and prolific sexual abuser stunned the nation. Since then, Savile’s presence in the pantheon of UK television has been...
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I’m sure Jake Humphrey is a nice guy. There, I said it. Conscience cleansed and caveats launched, I can now move forward to the brunt of my critique of the High Performance podcast, which must be one of the worst things ever created. There are many things to dislike about...
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Olympic champion, world champion, national sporting icon. They are all titles which indicate sporting legend, but for Jakob Ingebrigtsen mask a far nastier and unhappier truth. In a staggering set of allegations against their father Gjert, Jakob and brothers Henrik and Filip have denounced his behaviour as violent and abusive....
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From enemies to lovers: enter George Osborne and Ed Balls. These politicians of a long passed bygone age known as 2015 have gone on an interesting journey. Back then, they were on opposite sides of the House of Commons despatch boxes, trading blows on the economy as chancellor and shadow...
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For months if not years, GB News had been existing in an uncomfortable grey area. A moment was coming which would expose the fragility of its current regulation; the laxity by which it has been operating since its foundation two years ago. And it now looks as if that moment...
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The comedian and writer Alex Horne will be awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick. Creator of Channel 4’s Taskmaster, Horne’s accolade comes following his work on the ‘School Tasking’ initiative: a programme aimed at encouraging young people to engage with the world of law. The initiative...
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In 2073 our ancestors will be celebrating the 100-year anniversary of The Boar, the Earth will be about 2 degrees warmer, and North West will be 60. Needless to say, times are uncertain. A comforting thought would be, what will not change at Warwick until then? The unwittingly cringy (at...
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Often, it is fleeting and singular moments which define competitions. If there is one from England’s World Cup campaign, it was definitely Mary Earps’s penalty save late on in the final. So recurrently during England’s exciting summer in Australia, it was the defence which got the nation out of trouble...
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Television nowadays seems to suffer from what I would term a ‘reboot culture’. Old programmes are revived often because big bosses have fathomed that they were actually serving quite a useful purpose in the first place. There have been two examples of that lately: the BBC reboot of Waterloo Road...
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England fell to a disappointing Netball World Cup final defeat on Sunday 6 August, losing 61-45 to Australia. The Roses were competing in their first final compared to Australia’s ninth, but optimism was high. A landmark win over the Aussies in the group stages had lifted expectations that a World...
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Like most sensible people, I watched the sight of US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell freezing at a podium recently with a grimaced expression. McConnell (81) was delivering a speech inside the Capitol when he suddenly ceased speaking and glazed over in a gormless expression. There are few more unsavoury...
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Thomas Bartley reviews the explicit, open and candid memoir of Baxter Dury's childhood.
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The two positions that spring to mind when you think of the most challenging in the country are Prime Minister and England manager. Few in recent years have been able to weather the storms of either as effectively as Gareth Southgate, England’s men’s football team manager since 2016. This ability...
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