Peter Williams

If failure and rejection are inevitable in life, so too are our attempts, once the pain has dulled, to rationalise them, to say that if this person, or that large corporation, hadn’t broken my heart,

Here is a better way to do “true crime”: the fifth series of Gangster gives a familiar tale of hope and despair in postwar Britain new life by telling it through the Burger Bar Boys, a Birmingham gang

The phenomena in Uncanny mirror more quotidian troubles: break-ups, bereavement, even a wicked step-parent.

Also featuring Penance by Eliza Clark and White Hot by Matt Roller and Tim Wigmore.

It’s redundant, self-congratulatory and twee. Among all the staples of customer service speak, this one particularly grates.

The stock conservative metaphor calls to mind the right sort of chaps doing the right sorts of things, no matter the reality.

It’s not the month you want, but it’s the one you need.

Arch presenters, clichéd reporting, soft interviews: no wonder BBC Radio 4’s stale morning show is rapidly losing listeners.

On 5 September, Liz Truss declared, “we will deliver, we will deliver, and we will deliver”. What, if anything, does she mean?

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Train Guy is the archetypal tosser from the ever-booming management classes – the sort of high-grade professional we find we can currently do without.