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
Haunting Ghosts
Two timely dramatisations of espionage in the Middle East
Paper trail
Thrillers from Finland to Afghanistan
Summer viewing
Top television recommendations for the summer from Adam LeBor
Diamond geezers in Antwerp
From crime dramas to political thrillers, Adam LeBor reviews television from across the world
TV crime spree
From Washington to Belfast via a conspiracy thriller, Adam LeBor reviews the latest television drama.
Risky liasons
From Syria to Spain
Tokyo story
An American takes on the Yakuza 84
Chaos captivates
The newest season of Fauda is the most complex and thus the most satisfying so far
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
