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Politics TV

July 2024

  • Lewis Goodall in a yellow top sitting in a midcentury wood-panelled room

    BBC failed to defend me during Tory witch-hunt, says Lewis Goodall

  • Tosin Cole as Michael Lasaki in Supacell.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Supacell; Skint: The Truth About Britain’s Economy; A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder; The Man With 1,000 Kids – review

June 2024

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Dim Dowden is not the right Tory frontman to energise flatlining campaign

    John Crace
  • The moment armed Russian agents seize the Arctic Sunrise, caught on Greenpeace film

    TV review
    On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace review – a jaw-droppingly unforgettable real-life tale

May 2024

  • Laura Kuenssberg sitting on orange blocks in an orange space, wearing a navy buttoned long dress and white court shoes

    Pass the remote: a Bafta TV special
    Laura Kuenssberg’s year in TV: ‘Who would play me on TV? Cameron Diaz, if she could do a soft Scottish accent’

    The political reporter on wanting more Big Bang Theory, winding down with Romesh Ranganathan’s Avoidance, and why Navalny would make a great drama

November 2023

  • Frank Sinatra and John F Kennedy at Kennedy's inaugural ball in January 1961

    TV review
    Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia review – a barely believable tale of corruption and betrayal

    This documentary’s examination of the singer, the president and organised crime is exhilaratingly grubby. The twisting, steadily intensifying story is a corker

September 2023

  • DEADLOCKED<br>Key art for DEADLOCKED. Photo credit: Courtesy of SHOWTIME.

    ‘You want to think America is better’: can the supreme court be saved?

    Documentarian Dawn Porter’s expansive new series Deadlocked looks back at the history of an institution that has shaped the US for better and, more recently, worse

May 2023

  • BBC Director-General Tim Davie

    ‘He doesn’t understand journalism’: ex-producer’s verdict on BBC director general Tim Davie

    Rob Burley, a former head of the corporation’s live political coverage, lambasts Davie for waving through cuts and shedding experienced interviewers

October 2022

  • ‘A cataclysm tore apart the foundations of society’ … images from TraumaZone.

    ‘They are stealing Russia’: Adam Curtis on how hyper-capitalism wrecked a nation – and why Liz Truss must take heed

    In the 1990s, Russia embraced an extreme economics that led to chaos and corruption. Now, writes the maker of explosive new series TraumaZone, Liz Truss is taking Britain down the same toxic path
  • ‘The cultural and social memory of the UK’; publicity shots for the programme State of the Planet with David Attenborough.

    ‘The cultural memory of the UK’: unearthing the hidden treasures of the BBC archive

    For years the corporation has been digitising its vast reserve of content, turning up lost footage of everyone from General Eisenhower to Victoria Wood. Meet the team bringing a century of footage back to life
  • Nadhim Zahawi

    Nadhim Zahawi apologises for economic turmoil after mini-budget

    Cabinet minister says ‘of course I’m sorry’ during clash with Piers Morgan on BBC One’s Question Time

August 2022

  • Bernard Ingham in Days That Shook the BBC With David Dimbleby

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: David Dimbleby confronts a history of BBC scandals

    The broadcaster remember the days that shook the corporation. Plus: Hogarthian scenes in Night Coppers. Here’s what to watch this evening

May 2022

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    High-spend politics might make great TV, but democracy pays the price for it

    Torsten Bell
    Those who wish Westminster was more like The West Wing should take note of research on election spending caps in Brazil

April 2022

  • Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher pictured in 1984

    TV review
    Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special Relationship – crying out for a Philomena Cunk voiceover

    There are plenty of insider interviews in Margaret Thatcher’s authorised biographer’s uncritical, traditional-feeling documentary. But you can’t help chuckling at its dated format

February 2022

  • Like being led by the hand into the mouth of hell … Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes.

    Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – stunning TV that is suddenly unmissable

    Filmmaker James Jones had no idea when he started it two years ago that a terrible synchronicity would make his blistering documentary about the nuclear accident in northern Ukraine a must-watch
  • The Mark Thomas Comedy Project.

    How we made
    ‘I phoned the president of Ghana onstage in a pub’: how we made The Mark Thomas Comedy Product

    ‘It was a steep learning curve, from shouting abuse at a Tory MEP to chasing international arms dealers’
  • Devil's Advocate: The Mostly True Story Of Giovanni Di Stefano

    TV review
    Devil’s Advocate review – a mind-boggling tale of a real-life grifter

    This documentary looks at the rise and fall of the ‘lawyer’ Giovanni di Stefano, whose list of clients reads like a Who’s Who of criminality – from Saddam Hussein to Harold Shipman

January 2022

  • Zoe Williams

    Vaccine refusers have been asked on to Question Time. Is this a disaster waiting to happen?

    Zoe Williams
    Fiona Bruce has encouraged unvaccinated people to join the TV show’s debate. I have misgivings about this attempt to bridge a growing divide, writes Zoe Williams

December 2021

  • Laura Kuenssberg interviewing people in Telford, Shropshire, 2017.

    Who could replace Laura Kuenssberg as BBC political editor?

  • Sophie Raworth.

    BBC picks Sophie Raworth to take Andrew Marr’s place temporarily

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