Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

A review of Doctor Who, Series 4 starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

How do we know who or what to trust? This is one of the key questions of the world we live in today. So many claims compete for our trust:…

There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…

A review of the film of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.

Review of Amazing Grace in the light of whether religion is a force for good or for bad.

The biggest television hit in the USA since ER first aired has hit UK screens this year. Set in a wealthy and pristine suburban cul-de-sac,…