TV Review
Why is TalkTV failing?
Monotonous boomer bait creates apathy, not outrage
Zut alors! Ten Per Cent is no Call My Agent
The remake of the French original is rather merde
A spy for all seasons
Who is the man behind “The IPCRESS File”?
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
Blood and guts in high school
“Euphoria” is the nightmare the older generation saw coming
The myth of the plucky Brit
Notwithstanding our favourite WWII stories, derring-do doesn’t win wars
When comedy goes right, it’s very wrong
The Goes Wrong Show expertly mines hilarity through disaster
Lovely jubbly
Celebrating the genius of Only Fools and Horses on its 40th anniversary
Mission Accomplished
Finley Harnett reviews the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
