Television
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
“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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing