Culture
BBC iPlayer’s liberal conspiracy theory
Adam Curtis’s six-part history of the modern imagination is an obituary for serious or even semi-serious television
Blood on the tracks
Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck
The gay anti-Nazi brotherhood
In recognising the threat Hitler posed and swimming against the tide of public opinion, the glamour boys defied the stereotypes
Secrets of Portobello
Thomas Woodham-Smith treasures a classic antiques street market
Studio: Drawing US Presidents
John Springs on illustrating US Presidents throughout his career
The iconic history of London’s 100 Club
Steve Morris recalls the iconic Oxford Street basement club which has housed London’s evolving music scene since the Second World War
Poirot’s little grey cells
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective
Why musicals are Britain’s elite artform
Musical theatre is one of Britain’s most prized assets; we must protect this unique part of our culture and economy at all costs
The detransitioners
Is it transphobic to worry about people who regret their surgery? David Scullion speaks to psychotherapist James Caspian and photographer Laura Dodsworth
A very English take on espionage
Alexander Larman on the newest release in Mick Herron’s best-selling and critically acclaimed Jackson Lamb crime series: Slough House