TV
Give the Doctor his heart(s) back
Wokeness is killing Doctor Who
Can GB News go the distance?
TV channels can recover from a shaky and uncertain start
Memories of a massacre
Rinder’s documentary is the kind of television at which the BBC excels, says Adam Lebor
Reviving the inner anarchist
A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?
Lost dream of coexistence
Adam LeBor delves into The Bureau, the utterly absorbing French spy thriller series
Rave that runs out of puff
Summertime and the streaming is easy, but Netflix’s White Lines leaves Adam LeBor cold
Should we listen to writers about their own work?
As Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is set to air this evening, Alexander Larman ponders the relationship between a living writer and their works
Abnormal People
The TV adaptation that reflects the falsity of campus novels
A tale of two Harrys
Adam LeBor on the sharply written TV show: The Windsors
Goodnight, Mr Bond
It’s time to let the man who saved the world, and the cinema, rest in peace.
The war on normativity
Chris Pratt is a man caught in the middle of a growing rift between two Americas
Who wants to rule forever?
Being in power a long time doesn’t guarantee you’ll get things done
The vaccine passport fallacy
Why don’t we just charge the unvaccinated more?
The Austrian solution
Mandating vaccination by criminal sanction may sound draconian, but then again Austria has historic form for this sort of thing
Crime without punishment
It should not be difficult to distinguish between political protest and disrupting national life
Economical with the truth
Deconstructing the left’s Cuban blockade fantasy is a matter of numbers
Bring back the panjandrums
We need heavyweights to separate good from bad
From self-ID to no-ID
You’ll be amazed what they’re trying to get away with now
The Courtauld: a collection unmasked
The gallery has long been famous for its impressionist collection, but the reopening sheds light on other works of art
Chips, with everything
Mr Heffer has produced a monumental second volume on Henry ‘Chips’ Channon to match his first