The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
Rebus at the school of hard Knox
The tropes are popular, because they work
Europe invaded
We must heed the warnings from Hungary and Poland about migration
The slain in Spain, and Belfast again
This police drama tidies up loose ends just enough, but still leaves the viewers wanting more
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
Welcome to a kaleidoscopic showcase of topical dramas in vivid settings
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Taking on ISIS and Eichmann
Covering a French spy thriller, a documentary on Eichmann and a British government drama
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Why Labour doesn’t understand the gender wars
Keir Starmer’s confusion on gender is the result of years of cowardice
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
