Belfast
TV crime spree
From Washington to Belfast via a conspiracy thriller, Adam LeBor reviews the latest television drama.
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
Turning shares into swords
The Church doesn’t invest in defence companies, but it prays you continue to do so
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity