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
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
