Judah Friedlander Live!
In his perversity, absurdity, and bleakness, Friedlander taps the mood of American politics now
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
Trusting Dave Chappelle
The comedian’s 8:46 show is a stand-up special with few jokes
Streaming Daniel Kitson
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church explores the possibility of human connection
The Scandi-noir plot to change Sweden
Sweden couldn’t have been as bad as depicted in Sjowall and Wahloo’s novels – after all it produced ABBA and Ikea
Bohemia, SW3
Barry Turner delves into an illuminating and entertaining insight into Bohemian life in the fast lane
Could Tice scupper the Tories in Hartlepool?
The Hartlepool by-election will require a careful candidate selection for the Conservatives
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
Blinded by science
Alasdair Palmer says there is little evidence to show that lockdowns are effective
From Pontypool to Pauillac
Christopher Pincher takes us through the Labour Party’s beverages of choice
Ban Trans myths by writing ‘FACT’
Prevent the rise of fascism by letting the state arrest people for what they think
Thanks for not sharing
Lisa Hilton says tapas are over-hyped, over-priced and have overstayed their welcome
The moral injuries in store for NHS workers
Research is revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD, with important applications for healthcare staff caught up in battling Covid-19
Deeply flawed life of Cap’n Bob
Christopher Silvester reveals how this biography of Robert Maxwell is a skilfully constructed page-turner