Dress rehearsal
A 2015 comedy starring Volodymyr Zelensky is now showing on Channel 4
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
Johnson’s better angel takes flight
Munira Mirza was the Prime Minister’s indispensable foil
Grim up north
Two new Nordic dramas reveal a darker side to Scandi paradise
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
Final frontiers
Adam LeBor on two TV series that are set in border regions, that feature engaging female characters and that are beautifully filmed
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
9/11 confidential
This 9/11 documentary gained extraordinary access to the key decision makers, deploying the material with skill and confidence
Thirty years on: blood and hatred in the Balkans
Adam LeBor recalls terror and surreal moments of calm in Eastern Europe
Press Gang
Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Don’t exploit Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Her legal triumph should be the start and not the end of the reckoning
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
