Netflix
Ends of empires
Two compulsive, immersive and vivid end-of-empire series
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
Eastern promise
Three worthy TV shows now streaming that allow you to zip around the world with a few clicks
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
In defence of the Netflix Persuasion
It is a satire of modern vanities, not a screw-up
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
Naughty noughties
History repeats itself in more ways than one
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
Chamberlain’s fictional rehabilitation
Netflix’s sympathetic take on the great appeaser is ultimately unconvincing
Press Gang
Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
