Remembering Khamis Abulafia: broadcaster, baker, peacemaker
As the remnants of Israel’s left implode and the hard-right strengthens further, Israel needs voices like Khamis’s more than ever
Memories of a massacre
Rinder’s documentary is the kind of television at which the BBC excels, says Adam Lebor
Learning to love Big Brother
A contemporary political drama uses the double whammy of Covid and Brexit to reanimate older, primeval forces
The Marxist cell in Number 10
Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right
Reviving the inner anarchist
A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?
Lost dream of coexistence
Adam LeBor delves into The Bureau, the utterly absorbing French spy thriller series
The EU Godfather’s Wall Street roots
Adam LeBor traces the American influences behind Jean Monnet, the man who reshaped Europe
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
Too many women are being murdered
Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
Rave that runs out of puff
Summertime and the streaming is easy, but Netflix’s White Lines leaves Adam LeBor cold
Barbara Windsor – a life lived with a giggle
Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career
Big news reaches a small town
Where was I when the Berlin Wall fell and Margaret Thatcher resigned?
Is China heading for global empire or Soviet collapse?
Dan Blumenthal’s new book wants us to be pessimistic, realistic, and proactive
The wrong sort of women, again
View from Oxford: the Fortune Wheel of grievance spins yet again
Obscure Rhone hunting
If in doubt while perusing a strange wine list, choose a bottle from France’s red wine powerhouse
The legacy of David Bowie: five years, what a surprise
Alexander Larman on why the late, great David Bowie remains such a totemic and iconic figure in his life
Why you should add chess to your home school curriculum
It is strange to think that a piece of wood on a board can be so emblematic of what it means to be human
Shock: there is a pregnant “person” in the Cabinet
Legislation on maternity leave is now drafted to apply to “a person” not “a woman” who is a mother
Reflections on Narnia
After 75 years, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe remains a relatable classic
Prokofiev/Miaskovsky: Symphonies (LAWO Classics)
Norman Leberecht laments not being able to give the Oslo Philharmonic the five stars they deserve