Television
Press Gang
Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’
A widow’s might
The Widow is intelligent television that probes the dark side of the international aid industry
The problem with adapting classic novels
Following the letdown of the new adaptation of The Pursuit of Love, Alexander Larman says that TV dramatisations of classic novels haven’t always been this bad
The enduring appeal of the Mitford family
As the BBC’s adaptation of The Pursuit of Love begins, Alexander Larman questions whether the new dramatisation will do justice to Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel
Line of Duty and the politics of drama
It doesn’t take the minds of AC-12’s finest to see the parallels between our own political climate and the nation’s favourite police drama
Back to the wall
Despite the fact East Germany has disappeared, it continues to live on in this outstanding trilogy
Paul Ritter: a consummate scene-stealer
Alexander Larman recalls the life and legacy of Paul Ritter, who has died at the age of 54
Are overcomplicated back stories killing drama?
As Line of Duty now seems mired in the complexity of its own backstory, Alexander Larman asks if on-screen plots have become too complicated for us to enjoy
Finn noir
A Bergmanesque miasma of gloom hangs over every episode in this new Scandinavian thriller
Diversity at the BAFTAs
The BAFTA film awards have seen plenty of diversity in recent years, but have gone down in film history as the least diverse film awards ever. Why?
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards