Drama
The Pryce is wrong
Didactic drama is often artistically empty and politically misleading
Big, dumb and full of fun?
“Operation Mincemeat” does not quite live up to the hype
Safe battles, safe applause
Our theatres fight yesterday’s battles to avoid confronting today’s risks
Low mimetic nation
Why Britain keeps mistaking TV for real life
Kemi Badenoch is right about Adolescence
Why should watching it be an obligation?
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
More drama, less news
An element of fiction can bring insights and humanity that pure non-fiction lacks
Paper trail
Thrillers from Finland to Afghanistan
Summer viewing
Top television recommendations for the summer from Adam LeBor
A lie amid history
Will your interpretation of history be more interesting than the real thing?
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work