Guardian Articles

There’s an ongoing scandal at the heart of our media; a crime not just against those living but against those yet to be born. Throughout the passage of the health and social care act, the BBC was the dog that barely raised an eyebrow. It’s been the most obedient of...

Almost every time he opens his gob, Simon Jenkins makes me want to tear up my membership of the National Trust. He’s done it again this week in his piece for the Guardian, dynamiting the Shard on the day it opens. The Shard has, he claims, ‘slashed the face of London...

On 18 October 1976, Labour prime minister James Callaghan spoke at a foundation stone laying ceremony for an extension of Ruskin College, Oxford. Callaghan paid tribute to the role of Ruskin in providing a ‘second chance’ for adult learners who had, for one reason or...

In Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall the main character, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer, notes that ‘sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad: sun, milk, red meat, college.' I was reminded of this line sitting through Tuesday night’s Progress...