Television
Adulterating Amadeus
A new series does an injustice to Mozart, Shaffer, Forman and TV in general
Enduring delights
The Box of Delights still charms audiences today
Hating the game
Modern game shows are a disturbing reflection of our culture
Historic failure
If the past is a foreign country, it’s one against which we appear to be racist
A series of dreaming clichés
My Oxford Year is a trend-obsessed pastiche
No one should have to support the BBC
If the BBC is worth keeping, it should be able to support itself
A straight woman cannot be a gay man
We should stop misleading each other and ourselves
The tyranny of agitslop
Art is being replaced with middle-class moralism
Low mimetic nation
Why Britain keeps mistaking TV for real life
Let’s ban the TV
Television, not the internet, is driving people mad
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Peston’s inbox
It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long