Television
Cuties: how Netflix normalised the sexualisation of children
Netflix’s latest controversy has highlighted another troubling conflict between the Right and the Left
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
Happy birthday to Hugh
Hugh Grant’s acting career has experienced a well-earned renaissance in recent years
The new televangelism
The best US television drama has a strong religious dimension
Why are we in thrall to conmen?
Alexander Larman looks forward to new drama Quiz on ITV
Pure gold among the C4 dross
Adam LeBor strikes television gold
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
Don’t mention the war, or Alf Garnett
The ‘offensive’ TV landmarks censored from Britain’s answer to Netflix
Manners maketh answers
Rudeness does not make for good television
Actors do love gongs
Stars of the stage are more likely to feature in the Honours list than the people who write their scripts
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
