Red lights and red flags
Sometimes, when I am driving home from hosting my late night Times Radio show, I hit a red traffic light at a roundabout near MediaCity. I think you know where this is going. It’s 01:30. There is nobody around. The red light is for a slip road off the main dual carriageway. It isn’t a […]
The story I didn’t have time to tell you…
A few years ago I made a documentary about a man who claims to be God… and the people who follow him. But there was one story we didn’t quite get time to tell. If you are hearing about this for the first time, I know what you’re thinking: that sounds a bit like a […]
Newsletter: The Pale Blue Dot
It was a couple of hours before Donald Trump promised to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age that humanity did something extraordinary. Under an eruption of blinding white steam and churning orange fire, hundreds of tons of metal and four intrepid humans were thrust into space. The launch of Artemis II is the culmination […]
Newsletter Version: Meet the Attention Activists
Can I have your attention, please? Professor D. Graham Burnett would like it, too. Graham is an historian of tech and science… and through his research has become so passionate about reclaiming our attention from the grip of tech giants and addictive digital media that he has started a new movement. Alongside some colleagues, friends, […]
Meet the Attention Activists
Can I have your attention, please? Professor Graham Burnett would like it, too. Graham is an historian of tech and science… and through his research has become so passionate about reclaiming our attention from the grip of tech giants that he has started a new movement. Alongside some colleagues, friends, artists, activists and other researchers… […]
Why do we feel nostalgic? Newsletter version
Last night, after bathing Molly and putting her to bed, I got stuck into one of my favourite pastimes: taking the bins out. What was once a grubby chore has become a rare moment of solace. It’s just me and the night sky… and the bins. I pause for a moment after I’ve delivered the […]
Inside the Freemasons HQ
A few weeks ago, I got an unexpected invitation. I was talking on my Times Radio show about Freemasons – one of the oldest fraternal organisations in the world. Membership is secretive, but high profile Masons have included members of the Royal Family, Prime Ministers, business leaders and least fourteen Presidents. The Freemasons have often […]
Introducing… History Undone
I have a new show to introduce you to. Well, it’s not new. It’s well established. Very well established. In fact it’s so well established, with such a loyal and dedicated fanbase, that I have been more nervous about taking on this show than almost anything I have done before. It’s called History Undone, and […]
Inside the religious sect that believes Trump was anointed by God
Times Radio’s Jo Crawford travelled to Nebraska to investigate a fringe evangelical sect that believes the US is in the midst of a spiritual war and Donald Trump was anointed by God. She joined me on Times Radio to take us into her story.
TikTok’s Dystopian Britain
Last week I was in North America, and on more than one occasion I spoke to somebody who seemed to pity that I had to live in Britain. They were concerned for me. They told me they’d heard that Britain was a lawless hellhole… with gang ridden streets, wide-spread corruption and an authoritarian regime. Sure, […]