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    • Saturday, 12 May, 2018
      FT Globetrotter
      Jeremy Paxman on how Soho House transformed Television Centre

      The former ‘Newsnight’ presenter returns to the BBC to check in to the just-opened White City House hotel

    • Friday, 4 May, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Jeremy Paxman on how to fix the BBC

      Under attack on all fronts, Britain’s broadcaster needs to focus on what it does best

    • Friday, 16 March, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Jeremy Paxman on meeting Joan Baez and liberating his right brain

      The FT contributing editor encounters a hero of his youth, and discovers the rewards of a life-drawing class

    • Friday, 16 February, 2018
      UK business & economy
      BBC’s payroll policy under scrutiny after tax battle

      TV presenter’s case raises questions over personal service companies

    • Friday, 9 February, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Jeremy Paxman: Mindfulness? I’d rather go on safari

      In Zambia’s Lower Zambezi national park, the FT writer finds that nothing unhinges one’s sense of self quite like the wild

    • Friday, 29 December, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Jeremy Paxman on dog decorum, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the year ahead

      The FT contributing editor on surviving the worst night of the year

    • Friday, 8 December, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Jeremy Paxman’s Diary: ‘University Challenge’ vs ‘The Voice’

      FT’s contributing editor on reality TV and the future of fly-fishing

    • Friday, 24 November, 2017
      UK politics & policy
      The political dullards masquerading as leaders

      Where are the public intellectuals in this age of reality TV?

    • Monday, 16 October, 2017
      InterviewLife & Arts
      Podcast: Good taste, dark secrets and Amit Chaudhuri

      What’s the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done? We ask Vince Cable, Ruth Rogers and Jeremy Paxman.

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2017
      FT Magazine
      Jeremy Paxman on the Church of England’s fight to survive

      As congregations dwindle, is the Church on the brink of extinction?

    • Monday, 28 August, 2017
      World
      Diana’s death was a moment of truth for the royal family

      Britain is not the country it was 20 years ago, and that is partly the late princess’s doing

    • Friday, 11 August, 2017
      Life & Arts
      The terrible cost of Scotland’s salmon farms

      The veteran angler Jeremy Paxman bemoans the rise of salmon farms and the ‘bleak’ prospects for these wild fish

    • Friday, 2 June, 2017
      Brexit
      In May and Corbyn, Britain has the politicians it deserves

      One a nervous geography student the other an avuncular lecturer, both inhabit a dull, parallel universe

    • Monday, 29 May, 2017
      Television
      Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn survive the Paxman treatment

      PM branded a ‘blowhard’ while Labour leader questioned on opposition to Falklands war

    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2017
      UK general election
      Car crash interviews, election edition — the hall of infamy

      Diane Abbott just the latest in a parade of close encounters of the excruciating kind

    • Friday, 21 April, 2017
      Life & Arts
      The Diary with Jeremy Paxman — it’s LOLs all round

      Internet idiocy, and more elections

    • Friday, 14 April, 2017
      Television
      University Challenge and why everyone loves a clever-clogs

      Memes and Monkmania reveal an enduring regard for scholarship

    • Friday, 31 March, 2017
      Life & Arts
      London diary: Jeremy Paxman on heads of state in the age of Trump

      A week of filming ‘University Challenge’ and a documentary in Washington, plus a visit to the National Army Museum in Chelsea

    • Friday, 10 March, 2017
      UK holidays
      The naked truth is that flesh lacks appeal

      Naturism has good reason to be a minority activity in the UK

    • Friday, 3 March, 2017
      FT Magazine
      Jeremy Paxman on the future of the police

      The writer and broadcaster joins officers on the frontline to discover if the service is equipped to deal with modern Britain

    • Friday, 17 February, 2017
      UK politics & policy
      A hundred years of Windsors but still the Queen is partly German

      A century ago the royals bowed to public opinion and changed the family name

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2017
      Fake news
      Fake news makes old concerns redundant

      Disclosure is not the same as the repetition of tittle-tattle

    • Friday, 16 December, 2016
      Health Care
      Night terrors stalk a hospital drama

      An unexpected serious illness brings a beeping hell — and no dignity

    • Friday, 9 December, 2016
      The Diary
      The Diary: Jeremy Paxman

      The FT contributing editor on grammar and Goebbels

    • Friday, 7 October, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Writing a memoir: Jeremy Paxman on telling it like it was

      For Jeremy Paxman, deciding what to reveal posed a series of challenging questions

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