Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has written a poor quality piece kindly explaining to us what the limits on free speech should be. "Hitler won the votes of the majority", she writes. "Would the BBC have done him the honour, too? I say the BNP should be interrogated on news programmes but an appearance on Question Time is a privilege which the BBC now bestows on racists. It sickens those of us who expect bett...

Corporation to announce plans to divert more than the entire annual budget of BBC Two into higher quality programmes.

Susan Hill writes in praise of the forgotten virtues of peace and quiet: Silence is a place, a quality but its value increases when it is entered into as a place of contrast. We enjoy the light so much because the darkness exists....  A friend teaches in a primary school and her class raised money by having a sponsored silence. Not only did they do well financially — she told me that th...

Ivan Lewis MP, Labour's Shadow Culture Secretary, responding to the publication of the BBC Delivering Quality First proposals, said:

The usual justification for our being coerced into paying the illiberal licence fee is the BBC's "quality broadcasting". Perhaps, like me, you have watched BBC output in recent years and scoffed at that assertion. Nevertheless, let us agree that the...

The Today programme this morning came to grips with the latest attempt by somebody to talk sense about the future of the Corporation and its licence fee. A pamphlet, "To inform, educate and entertain" published by the Centre for Policy Studies makes the eminently rational case for the BBC to contract and become better: to concentrate on the sort of quality progra...

In the Wall Street Journal,Tom Gross rightly draws attention to a troubling gap in the BBC's coverage of the Mumbai atrocities: For some time, many have argued that an element of anti-Semitism has distorted the way the BBC covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But now, following the Mumbai events, we can perhaps see that antisemitism may even be at work in the way the BBC covers foreign ne...

Archbishop Cranmer School in Aslockton, Nottingham is streamlining its reporting and assessment procedures for its staff, as a means to improve the planning of lessons and up the quality of teaching provision it can offer its pupils.

Penistone & Stocksbridge MP, Angela Smith, has awarded the Waggon & Horses at Langsett a certificate in recognition for its quality food and drink. The award is part of a promotion run by the All Parliamentary Beer Group to support local pubs. Commenting on the nomination, Angela said: “Local pubs are important for many reasons, however, it is important that they offer quality beer ...

In the Wall Street Journal,Tom Gross rightly draws attention to a troubling gap in the BBC's coverage of the Mumbai atrocities: For some time, many have argued that an element of anti-Semitism has distorted the way the BBC covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But now, following the Mumbai events, we can perhaps see that antisemitism may even be at work in the way the BBC covers foreign ne...