Sherlock Holmes was a Victorian genius. In the 21st Century, all you need is an iPhone. Warning: Contains spoilers. Mostly inflicted by the BBC when they spoiled this well-loved classic. Don’t you just hate it when people slag something off before they’ve even seen it? I was guilty of that on Friday, when Steven Moffat popped into [...]

So did you download Jer McElderry’s ‘Winner’s Song’, or did you Rage Against the Machine? Either way, you’ve given Sony a Christmas bonus, so that’s nice. But you can feel a warm festive glow if you kept Cowell’s soma-coma pop pap off the top spot. Charlie Brooker explains why.

The BBC drove me to it. It’s not just Gaza – but that was the final straw. The BBC’s eccentric, inconsistent, cravenly partial decision not to screen the DEC Gaza Appeal is just the latest sign that the world’s best broadcaster has become a weakened, withered, cowering institution. From sexed-up dossiers to mis-named Blue Peter [...]

Ah, the first sign of summer. No, not another public sector strike: the first book launch of the season. My friend Keith, widely touted (by me) as the new J.K. Rowling, launched his first book, Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London, from the roof terrace of his local primary school in East London last [...]

On Monday I went with my old school friend, Julie, to the RSA, as we often do. On this occasion, it was to see an even older school friend, Dave Gorman, screening and talking about his latest project. (Now, we are talking 25-30 years ago, when I lived in Stafford, before I moved south and [...]