Gareth Roberts

Gareth Roberts is a screenwriter and novelist, best known for his work on Doctor Who.

The hypocrisy of the Guardian’s X exodus Editors stayed quiet when conservatives were censored online

14 Nov 2024

Political correctness has created a hierarchy in comedy Critics are selective in their outrage over controversial subjects

10 Oct 2024

Phillip Schofield’s Cast Away is a case study in self-pity The daytime TV presenter shows no remorse over his 'unwise' affair

01 Oct 2024

Led By Donkeys exhibition: regime-approved satire When did comedy become about middle-class moralising?

21 Aug 2024

Please, Jacob Rees-Mogg: don’t go on reality TV The former Tory MP is reportedly filming a new fly-on-the-wall show

12 Jul 2024

Banksy’s Glastonbury stunt is the height of phoney rebellion The artist's dinghy gimmick was crass and entirely predictable

30 Jun 2024

The New Norm: another failed anti-woke comedy X's animated sitcom is excruciatingly bad

27 Jun 2024

Why is William Wragg getting off lightly? The Tory MP's sexting mishap could be a major security breach

05 Apr 2024

No, racism isn’t to blame for the heatwave response One writer views the climate problem through the prism of race

07 Aug 2023

What’s wrong with queerbaiting?

04 Nov 2022

Why does Penny Mordaunt hate Dad’s Army? This is no laughing matter for the leadership contender

12 Jul 2022

Shame the Platinum Pageant had to be so airy-Blairy Yesterday's celebrations had a dreary, political feel

06 Jun 2022

After 12 long hours, I have been freed from Twitter prison One sarcastic tweet led to my temporary suspension

19 May 2022

What’s wrong with being straight?

17 May 2022

Will the UK finally score at Eurovision 22? With Brexit in the rear view mirror, we might actually get some votes

13 May 2022

What drugs on TV tell us about media elites Their world is more removed from reality than ever

08 Dec 2021

Dr Who doesn’t make young men commit crime Politicians should stop taking pop culture so seriously

26 Nov 2021

Being ‘LGBT’ has become cosplay for millennials Sexual identity has become a jamboree of naff posing

10 Nov 2021

Is the BBC finally standing up to gender ideologues? A new report suggests that Auntie is making small steps in the right direction

27 Oct 2021

Stephen Nolan’s Stonewall documentary is unmissable The charity was never impartial

15 Oct 2021

Dave Chappelle is winning the culture wars His closing act has riled up all the right people

08 Oct 2021

Thank Britain for the golden age of television Shows like 'The Sopranos' revolutionised US TV — but the UK invented it

27 Sep 2021

The death of British television

21 Sep 2021

Judith Butler’s toxic nonsense

10 Sep 2021

The BBC erases homosexuality with the stroke of a pen Updated guidelines on gender and sex deny the reality of biological sex

13 Aug 2021

Oh no, The Mash Report is back It's the worst kind of comedy — dull and self-satisfied

28 Jul 2021

How The Office ruined comedy

09 Jul 2021

So you’ve been cancelled? Here’s what to expect Some will offer support, while others will deliver a full-throated denunciation

17 Jun 2021

Tories, masters of the culture wars? Don’t make me laugh The Conservatives are clueless, and culturally less powerful than the Left

03 Jun 2021

Only the Government can truly put an end to ‘wokeism’ An asymmetric culture war has been fought for too long

18 May 2021

The toxic world of fandom

18 Feb 2021

Let the Spitting Image rubber rot

21 Aug 2020

We are all prisoners of groupthink

06 Jul 2020

Eurovision 2020: and the bland played on

18 May 2020

Morrissey: lunatic seer of the modern world

06 May 2020

The guilty pleasure of daytime TV

06 Apr 2020

The absurd melodrama of modern soaps

26 Feb 2020

Another nauseating night at the Oscars

10 Feb 2020

Why kids today should get hooked on the classics

28 Jan 2020

How I was cancelled by Doctor Who

26 Dec 2019

How Lefty luvvies lost the plot

20 Dec 2019

Drinking in the madness of social media

01 Oct 2019

What would Joe Orton make of his erection?

21 Aug 2019

Why the woke can’t make jokes

05 Jul 2019

How I was cancelled by Doctor Who

14 Jun 2019