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
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
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
