After Manchester University were crowned University Challenge champions for the fourth time, bringing them onto a par with Magdalen College, Oxford, w...
The University Of Manchester have become champions of BBC contest University Challenge for a fourth time, to equal the record set by Magdalen College,...
The former editor of Newsnight boasted of the BBC's "higher standards" compared to rival ITV in the midst of the Jimmy Savile furore, emails reveal.
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If you go on a quiz show - and especially if that show is University Challenge - you had better get some questions right. And you had better not get too many questions wrong. And if you do get some questions wrong, you should try not to get them too wrong.
Famous for piling the pressure on politicians, Jeremy Paxman has now turned his attention to shy students, reducing one to a quivering wreck after a "...
This week, snow lies across the country, suppressing mirth and stilling the air. The land is quieted, as is our national spirit, for it occurs to me that something is amiss in these isles. What became of English rumbustiousness, what Jacobson has called an 'obdurate independence'?
There I am, on Newsnight, live on the bloody BBC talking about Lefty, my imaginary cancer character C-Monkey and boob-shaped cookies. Oh dear God. This was not another morphine moment. I wasn't hallucinating. I was sitting in a studio, in front of the legend that is Jeremy Paxman.
Jeremy Paxman gave his own boss a taste of his hard-hitting interview style when he warned him over a blog defending the decision to leave an investig...
The BBC has denied reports Jeremy Paxman is to leave Newsnight after the BBC's flagship current affairs show mistakenly implicated a senior Tory in a ...
When newspapers, decent newspapers, make terrible errors they will print retractions, pay libel damages and move on to the next defamation. But, the BBC, like some religions, thinks of itself as being infallible.
Fallen media mogul and, more recently, convicted fraudster Conrad Black engaged in a bitter, cynical and candid interview with Jeremy Paxman on Monday...
Never ones to miss an opportunity to turn a national scandal into a low-budget animation, Tawianese agency NMA TV have turned their talents to the Jim...
Comments by Jeremy Paxman in which he called the Bible's book of Genesis "hogwash" during an edition of Newsnight have been ruled offensive by the BBC...
Like the Olympic torch on its relay, the title of The Most Unpopular Man In Britain passed this week from Jimmy Carr to Ashley Cole... and then to Dav...
Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has told the Leveson inquiry into press standards that Piers Morgan told him how to hack phones at a dinner in 2002....
The Leveson inquiry has already had its fair share of tough interviewees, from Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks to Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre. But ...
Adam Smith, Jeremy Hunt's former special adviser who was forced to quit after admitting he had inappropriate contact with News International, will giv...