Television
Low mimetic nation
Why Britain keeps mistaking TV for real life
Let’s ban the TV
Television, not the internet, is driving people mad
“Adolescence” is not a documentary
The successful drama series should not necessarily become a guide to policy
Meghan Markle is not the problem
Hate her all you want, but Meghan didn’t make the rules
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Jeremy Clarkson touches grass
How a cocky petrolhead found his soul
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border