TV
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
The regime slop of daytime TV
Establishment propaganda is being forced down the throats of the old, the ill and the unemployed
In praise of the middlebrow
Sometimes, a television show really does deserve the hype
British comedy can’t keep up with the modern world
The return of the Mock the Week is strange and sad
Adulterating Amadeus
A new series does an injustice to Mozart, Shaffer, Forman and TV in general
Enduring delights
The Box of Delights still charms audiences today
A series of dreaming clichés
My Oxford Year is a trend-obsessed pastiche
Why bankers are living saints
Fiction and drama are filled with unhappy financiers, but the real world is very different
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave