Netflix
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
Welcome to a kaleidoscopic showcase of topical dramas in vivid settings
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
Netflixland
Against the flattened world of modern popular culture
Summer viewing
Top television recommendations for the summer from Adam LeBor
In praise of short shows
Sometimes, enough is enough
Are you not entertained?
The emptiness of popular culture
The TV boss who decides what you watch
Or does he?
Boats and bombs
A Netflix winner, a Netflix disappointment and a classic American hero on Amazon Prime
Struggles of the Sussexes
What kind of future do Harry and Meghan have?
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
