The morning after hearing the news of Whitney Houston's death, I found myself standing in a central London newsagents at 7am audibly swearing next to the front pages of the national newspapers. In the days that have followed my anger has not subsided as the headlines...

So long 2011 television, it's been emotional. Alfred Hitchcock once said that television "has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it". Now, he may well have said this during the previous century, but if you told me he said...

Last night saw the airing of Charlie Brooker's National Anthem, the first installment of his Channel 4 three-part comic drama Black Mirror. The story takes place over one day and focuses on the online hivemind reaction as a fictitious princess is kidnapped. Her captors have only one demand,...