TV Review
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
This drama in Tehran is fictional
The spy drama never flinches from portraying the savagery of the Ayatollahs’ regime
Danish thriller is a real diamond
A House of Dynamite deserves a genre all its own
Do the Slow Horses stay the course?
Hopefully season five will not end in a creative cul-de-sac
Black ops and a white-knuckle ride
Put your scepticism aside and buckle up for TV thrillers
The summer’s best viewing
Four new series to look out for and six old favourites that are still available
Historic failure
If the past is a foreign country, it’s one against which we appear to be racist
A series of dreaming clichés
My Oxford Year is a trend-obsessed pastiche
When the Nazis occupied Britain
When necessary engagement becomes collaboration is an unspoken question
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)