Daytime Television
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
Auntie to the rescue
Can the BBC give us daytimes to remember?
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
