Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career

Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.

We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow

What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted

How a cocky petrolhead found his soul

From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation

Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause

A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm

Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism

What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?