28 SEPTEMBER 2002, page 84

Light But Enlightening

Simon Hoggart W as there ever a golden age of television'? Perhaps we are living in it. For instance, I think Howard Goodall's Great Dates (Channel 4) is superb: evocative,......

Whipping Worries

Robin Oakley T ony Blair did not discover focus groups. Harold Macmillan once instructed Rab Butler to 'find out what the middle classes want and put it on a single piece of......