Culture

The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth

The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture

Dominic Hilton spots a sniper on a balcony, has embarrassing encounters in lifts and thinks gender-neutral language would make learning Spanish a lot easier

Michael Collins on the issue-led rehabilitation of a fast food giant

Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed

This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir

The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland

Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees

To get a handle on African cinema, watch Mandabi

Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’