Netflix
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
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
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to