Netflix
Time’s up for licence fee
The BBC must face reality over its future funding
The death of the DVD commentary
How the rise of streaming platforms has killed home entertainment
Break a leg
Woke Oscars tries to cripple the film industry, Stonewall capture the police and the Scottish enlightenment is cancelled
Cuties: how Netflix normalised the sexualisation of children
Netflix’s latest controversy has highlighted another troubling conflict between the Right and the Left
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
Rave that runs out of puff
Summertime and the streaming is easy, but Netflix’s White Lines leaves Adam LeBor cold
Hollywood or Hollywoke?
Can drama successfully rewrite history to satisfy modern sensitivities?
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
Pure gold among the C4 dross
Adam LeBor strikes television gold
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
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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
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive