On Television
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
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
