Rave that runs out of puff
Summertime and the streaming is easy, but Netflix’s White Lines leaves Adam LeBor cold
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
We have been here before
A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile
A tale of two Harrys
Adam LeBor on the sharply written TV show: The Windsors
Pure gold among the C4 dross
Adam LeBor strikes television gold
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
Manners maketh answers
Rudeness does not make for good television
Linguistic confusion
Dominic Hilton has more trouble with English than Spanish in Argentina
Priests and palaces
The Archbishops don’t realise the significance of the church building
The Sinking City
Beset by flooding and corruption, Venice is slowly falling into decline
Fun runs don’t exist
Nick Cohen won’t be happy until he doesn’t enjoy his daily ordeal
Achilles heels
Hannah Betts has a fashion-defying weak spot for empowering altitudes