K-drama
What to do with Channel 4
It could be a force for soft power
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
