Television
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
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
The Critic Books Podcast: The BBC — A People’s History
One hundred years on from the founding of the BBC, David Hendy speaks about how history has shaped the corporation
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
