TV Drama
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
The slain in Spain, and Belfast again
This police drama tidies up loose ends just enough, but still leaves the viewers wanting more
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Remembering an Agatha Christ-mas
What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
