Next In Fashion Netflix Rating: Baghdad Central Channel 4, Monday Rating: This week, a new thriller and a competitive reality show seeking a hot new fashion designer that, in its first moments, comes over as a cross between The Great British Sewing Bee and The Apprentice, which is not what we want. ‘I’m not nervous … Read more
The Pale Horse BBC1, Sunday Rating: Home Channel 4, Wednesday Rating: The screenwriter Sarah Phelps has been taking liberties with Agatha Christie murder mysteries for quite some time. Plots are revised. Characters are redrawn or may be ejected. Language is updated – here we had one ‘raddled arse’ and also one ‘F*** off!’ – and … Read more
We have heard the mantra so many times over the years that it must be true: ‘Tory austerity’ is killing off the poor. Listeners to Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday will have heard this same old narrative trotted out by Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology at University College London, whose review into ‘health inequalities’, … Read more