Television review
TV crime spree
From Washington to Belfast via a conspiracy thriller, Adam LeBor reviews the latest television drama.
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana