Television
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
The lady vanishes
TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
Borderline bleak
Sex and the City’s sequel is more mini-lecture series than TV drama
Scandal of the Campbells
The story of Margaret Campbell’s divorce, as seen on TV
The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
A question of selection
The Sensible Centrists have made a flawed case against party members choosing leaders
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Can Reform perform?
A Farage-less Reform campaign began with more of a splutter than a bang
Lone danger
One certainly wouldn’t expect anything resembling loyalty from the wolves running “Theatreland”
Rape crisis sabotage is a feature, not a bug, of trans activism
Trans activism is uniquely incompatible with anti-rape activism
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Reform can perform
Has Britain found its insurgent populist party?
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
