Netflix
A series of dreaming clichés
My Oxford Year is a trend-obsessed pastiche
The takeover
North to south London is a strictly one-way street
A twisting, timely cyber-thriller
Insightful conversations from Netflix’s new political conspiracy drama
Social media is just the latest enemy of public health puritans
Screens might not be good for us, but that is no excuse for a moral panic
This Netflix hit is a super-tense treat
A conspiracy thriller that steps deeps inside a fictional mafia whose tentacles reach far into the state
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party