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?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses