A ravishing Sicilian treat
Swathed in silk and linen, the prince’s family lives in luxury — but how long can this arcadia last?
A twisting, timely cyber-thriller
Insightful conversations from Netflix’s new political conspiracy drama
This Netflix hit is a super-tense treat
A conspiracy thriller that steps deeps inside a fictional mafia whose tentacles reach far into the state
French spy classic rebooted in English
It’s like being at a party with people you think you know — who then turn out to be someone else
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
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
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
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How to reverse Britain’s nuclear decline
Regulatory reform alone is not enough — we need better governance
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
Spectres of folk
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English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness