Channel 4
Summer viewing
Top television recommendations for the summer from Adam LeBor
Naked stupidity
Blurring the boundaries between childhood and adult sexuality endangers children
A dick move
Bog-standard sexism with a modern coat of paint
What to do with Channel 4
It could be a force for soft power
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
Can Channel 4 shake-up Super League?
The relationship between rugby league and television has never been easy. Now it’s Channel 4s turn to shake things up
Blacks to slaughter
If black lives really are to matter, we need stronger action against knife crime
Black to Front
Diversity is everywhere, but the BBC, the NHS, the Police and the Bank of England want more
Philharmonia – fact is richer than this fiction
Channel 4’s new series set in a Paris orchestra hits multiple wrong notes
And the screaming fell away
Legal threats being made against Brexiteers was news, them going away wasn’t
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
