Thriller
This Netflix hit is a super-tense treat
A conspiracy thriller that steps deeps inside a fictional mafia whose tentacles reach far into the state
French spy classic rebooted in English
It’s like being at a party with people you think you know — who then turn out to be someone else
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Taking on ISIS and Eichmann
Covering a French spy thriller, a documentary on Eichmann and a British government drama
Haunting Ghosts
Two timely dramatisations of espionage in the Middle East
Paper trail
Thrillers from Finland to Afghanistan
Diamond geezers in Antwerp
From crime dramas to political thrillers, Adam LeBor reviews television from across the world
TV crime spree
From Washington to Belfast via a conspiracy thriller, Adam LeBor reviews the latest television drama.
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback