Articles tagged Andrew Neil:
Wanted by the BBC: Professional Northerner
- 26 Jan 2020
This article is an updated and amended version of a piece I wrote for ConservativeHome on Friday. The latest madcap idea dreamt up in the corridors of power to prove that the BBC is in touch with the whole country is to despatch Nick Robinson to be Today's "Friend in t...
What's Happening to BBC News & Current Affairs?
- 16 Feb 2019
Let's go back to basics. What is the BBC for? What does 'public service broadcasting' actually mean? How does the BBC adapt to a world in which TV (not radio) audiences are on an apparently inexorable decline as young people consume their media via anything other than a TV scr...
From The Archives: In Conversation With Andrew Neil
- 3 Feb 2019
This interview appeared in the September edition of Total Politics Magazine in 2010. I read on Wikipedia that you were tutored by Vince Cable at university. Only briefly. In my final year at university when I was doing political economy and political science at the Unive...
'Politics Live' - The New Kid on the Political Media Block
- 14 Sep 2018
News junkies are conservative beasts. Whether it’s radio presenters moving to a different slot (!) or political TV shows being axed and then reincarnated, listeners and viewers tend to be very suspicious of change. They jump to conclusions before the first show has even been t...
Ten People Who are Having a Good Election
- 26 Apr 2010
Andrew Neil Ubiquitous. His Daily Politics morning reports have been incisive and entertaining and he always seems to ask the question the politician doesn't want to answer. A pity he isn't chairing the debate tonight. Michael Gove The Tory Party's emerging safe pair of h...
It's Wacaweek
- 21 Sep 2008
I thought the THIS WEEK sofa had plumbed the depths when Jade Goody's posterior was invited to grace it. I was wrong. I've just caught up with this week's show. I am still trying to recover from the fact that Timmy Mallett was a guest. Here's his opening piece of insightful an...
EXCLUSIVE: The Fallout from the Daily Politics Debacle
- 12 Jan 2007
I've now had the inside story of what happened the the Daily Politics this lunchtime, when they were taken off the air and missed Blair's final remarks in the Commons and the standing ovation. In THIS post I said... I am dumbstruck. Andrew Neil will be furious. The Daily Po...