What I watched on TV this summer
THE EMIGRE
An injured Chris Bullivant reviews Silo, Foundation, Mary Poppins, Invasion, Annie, The Batman, Wonder Woman 1984, and Batman.
When the music fades
I had landed from LAX, started temping at BBC Worldwide, when I received an email asking me to interview for a job at Soul Survivor
“The Early Years - Youth Investment”
SOCIAL CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
The Early Years - Youth Investment
“A Civil Society — Celebrating Diversity of Opinion”
SOCIAL CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
A Civil Society - Celebrating Diversity of Opinion
“The Rings of Power”: Not Woke, Just Disordered
THE EMIGRE
Three fixes to save Season 2 of The Rings of Power
An America Fading from View - Boomer to Bust
THE EMIGRE
Sat in an abandoned mall filled with the National Guard and Boomer nurses was dystopian. But the aggressive activism of the local coffee shop is worse.
Love in the Time of COVID
THE EMIGRE
Are the bonds of friendship formed with strangers in Latin America over a language app real or imagined? Chris Bullivant reflects on socializing online through COVID.
Free market education is woefully lacking
FREE MARKET CONSERVATIVES
The fact that it took me 40 years to come across something even half useful after a lifetime of British education means that we are letting our children down
Scrap the TV licence, the BBC should just stick to the national news
CITY A.M.
Monolithic TV is over. As a model, it cannot survive and shouldn’t be supported by a tax enforced with the threat of prison.
These are the voyages of the Starship Diversity
THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
In a world where the only stories that can be told and retold are Harry Potter, Star Wars or Star Trek, Netflix has been in the forefront of generating the most exciting, creative, and daring new TV content.
Social media lifts the veil on our opinions
THE WEEK
The rise of social media has polarised society by herding us into self-reinforcing echo chambers. That’s the conventional wisdom these days, say Chris Bullivant. But it’s not true.
Did we ever listen to alternative viewpoints?
UNHERD
Polarised views, diametrically opposed and vehemently held, have always lived side by side in society. But in the past, we lived largely in blissful ignorance of them.
Benefits Street: if only it were unrepresentative
I WRITE WHAT I LIKE
The resulting exposé is an accurate, empathetic, portrayal of a very regular feature of British life