A puzzled patriarch. That was me in March 2025. To be specific, I was puzzled by a pervert. I read a headline and it didn’t compute: “Woman jailed for recording hundreds of men using the toilet in Aldi.” Huh? I thought. But women don’t do that kind of thing. When I clicked on the link... Read More

After its first five years in operation, the British Broadcasting Company became the wholly state-controlled British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927. John Reith, the first chief executive, wrote in 1924 of his “high conception of the inherent possibilities of the service” and later asserted that “‘the brute force of monopoly’ was a necessity in British broadcasting.”[1]... Read More