TV Series
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
In praise of short shows
Sometimes, enough is enough
Tokyo story
An American takes on the Yakuza 84
Ghosts of Christmas past
Why Brits love their yuletide horror
Killer thrillers
The creators of Gangs of London could learn a lot from SAS Rogue Heroes
What to do with Channel 4
It could be a force for soft power
Zut alors! Ten Per Cent is no Call My Agent
The remake of the French original is rather merde
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
What the Dickens
Spin-offs are all very well, but can’t we have the real thing?
Blood and guts in high school
“Euphoria” is the nightmare the older generation saw coming
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
