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Final frontiers
Adam LeBor on two TV series that are set in border regions, that feature engaging female characters and that are beautifully filmed
Murders for late May
From psychological character studies to witty and fast-paced detective novels, Jeremy Black rounds up the best crime fiction for late Spring
A very English take on espionage
Alexander Larman on the newest release in Mick Herron’s best-selling and critically acclaimed Jackson Lamb crime series: Slough House
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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
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad