Culture secretary confirms fee will remain at £159 until 2024, but softens stance on its permanent abolitionThe culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, has confirmed that the BBC’s funding will be frozen for the next two years – but has softened her stance …
If Tory MPs want to hear the national anthem more, they can play it on YouTube | Joel Golby
There’s more to patriotism than the BBC playing the same song every dayI think it’s vaguely important to revisit the fact that last week, Romford’s Convervative MP, Andrew Rosindell, took up actual time in parliament – I am loth to describe this time a…
TV explorer Simon Reeve fears documentaries make him a climate ‘hypocrite’
Globetrotting presenter hopes ‘value’ of programmes offsets their carbon footprintExplorer and television presenter Simon Reeve is troubled by the carbon footprint of the travel documentaries he makes and sometimes feels a hypocrite, he has confessed.T…
Villagers fight to keep BBC Victorian Farm in business
The Shropshire tourist attraction and working farm was closed down after an E coli outbreak and campaigners fear it may never reopenOf the handful of historic working farms in the UK, Acton Scott Farm is perhaps the best known. The Shropshire farm was …
The BBC’s Ros Atkins: ‘I do a bit of body-boarding… posting videos is like catching a wave’
The journalist behind those ‘explainer’ videos on seeing his No 10 Christmas party video go viral, being a drum’n’bass DJ and wearing ‘an awful lot’ of blueRos Atkins, 47, grew up in Cornwall and the Caribbean before reading history at Cambridge. His B…
Jon Snow’s exit marks the end of an era of TV news big beasts
Falling ratings for primetime news suggest the days when presenters were household names are drawing to a closeIt has been one of the paradoxes of the year: as TV viewers continue to hunger for updates on the pandemic – the biggest story since the seco…
Andrew Marr to join New Statesman as chief political commentator
Veteran journalist who is leaving the BBC after 21 years will write weekly column in magazineAndrew Marr is to join the New Statesman magazine as its chief political commentator as part of a new chapter in the veteran broadcaster’s career after his dep…
ブラックフライデーのセール品の9割は最安値にあらず。英BBCの追跡調査が話題に【やじうまWatch】
ブラックフライデーのセール品の9割は最安値にあらず。英BBCの追跡調査が話題に【やじうまWatch】
David Tennant makes a dashing Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days preview
It’s the latest adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic 1873 adventure novel
アメリカ、ロシアの衛星攻撃実験は「危険で無責任」 ISSの宇宙飛行士が一時避難 – BBCニュース
画像説明, 古い衛星やロケットの破片が接近し、国際宇宙ステーション(ISS)に滞在する宇宙飛行士が予防的措置を取らなければならない場面が増えている。写真は2018年10月にロシアの宇宙船ソユーズのクルーが撮影したISS アメリカは15日、ロシアが自国の衛星に対して対衛星ミサイル実験を行ったと発表し、「危険かつ無責…