TV Review
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
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
