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The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
This drama in Tehran is fictional
The spy drama never flinches from portraying the savagery of the Ayatollahs’ regime
Adulterating Amadeus
A new series does an injustice to Mozart, Shaffer, Forman and TV in general
Danish thriller is a real diamond
A House of Dynamite deserves a genre all its own
Do the Slow Horses stay the course?
Hopefully season five will not end in a creative cul-de-sac
Black ops and a white-knuckle ride
Put your scepticism aside and buckle up for TV thrillers
The summer’s best viewing
Four new series to look out for and six old favourites that are still available
A series of dreaming clichés
My Oxford Year is a trend-obsessed pastiche
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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.
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility