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The former ‘Newsnight’ presenter returns to the BBC to check in to the just-opened White City House hotel
Under attack on all fronts, Britain’s broadcaster needs to focus on what it does best
The FT contributing editor encounters a hero of his youth, and discovers the rewards of a life-drawing class
TV presenter’s case raises questions over personal service companies
In Zambia’s Lower Zambezi national park, the FT writer finds that nothing unhinges one’s sense of self quite like the wild
The FT contributing editor on surviving the worst night of the year
FT’s contributing editor on reality TV and the future of fly-fishing
Where are the public intellectuals in this age of reality TV?
What’s the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done? We ask Vince Cable, Ruth Rogers and Jeremy Paxman.
As congregations dwindle, is the Church on the brink of extinction?
Britain is not the country it was 20 years ago, and that is partly the late princess’s doing
The veteran angler Jeremy Paxman bemoans the rise of salmon farms and the ‘bleak’ prospects for these wild fish
One a nervous geography student the other an avuncular lecturer, both inhabit a dull, parallel universe
PM branded a ‘blowhard’ while Labour leader questioned on opposition to Falklands war
Diane Abbott just the latest in a parade of close encounters of the excruciating kind
Internet idiocy, and more elections
Memes and Monkmania reveal an enduring regard for scholarship
A week of filming ‘University Challenge’ and a documentary in Washington, plus a visit to the National Army Museum in Chelsea
Naturism has good reason to be a minority activity in the UK
The writer and broadcaster joins officers on the frontline to discover if the service is equipped to deal with modern Britain
A century ago the royals bowed to public opinion and changed the family name
Disclosure is not the same as the repetition of tittle-tattle
An unexpected serious illness brings a beeping hell — and no dignity
The FT contributing editor on grammar and Goebbels
For Jeremy Paxman, deciding what to reveal posed a series of challenging questions
