Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
We have been here before
A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile
A tale of two Harrys
Adam LeBor on the sharply written TV show: The Windsors
Pure gold among the C4 dross
Adam LeBor strikes television gold
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
Manners maketh answers
Rudeness does not make for good television
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
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
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback