Television
Counterfeit Cleese
Coates on Cleese, Collins and Cole
Diamond geezers in Antwerp
From crime dramas to political thrillers, Adam LeBor reviews television from across the world
Are they okay?
British politics and media can be hard to stomach
Risky liasons
From Syria to Spain
Tokyo story
An American takes on the Yakuza 84
The madding crowd
Drunks, dames and Dahl
A lie amid history
Will your interpretation of history be more interesting than the real thing?
Ends of empires
Two compulsive, immersive and vivid end-of-empire series
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
Eastern promise
Three worthy TV shows now streaming that allow you to zip around the world with a few clicks
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
