Line of Duty
Auntie Nazi League
It’s BBC actors and comedy stars who’ve made the corporation great over the years — not two-a-penny journalists
Line of Duty and the politics of drama
It doesn’t take the minds of AC-12’s finest to see the parallels between our own political climate and the nation’s favourite police drama
Are overcomplicated back stories killing drama?
As Line of Duty now seems mired in the complexity of its own backstory, Alexander Larman asks if on-screen plots have become too complicated for us to enjoy
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
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British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
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Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The emperor’s old advisor
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