Eastern promise
Three worthy TV shows now streaming that allow you to zip around the world with a few clicks
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
Spook and crook
Research and authenticity are at the centre of these two series
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
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
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival