Series
Summer viewing
Top television recommendations for the summer from Adam LeBor
Chaos captivates
The newest season of Fauda is the most complex and thus the most satisfying so far
Ends of empires
Two compulsive, immersive and vivid end-of-empire series
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
Press Gang
Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
