TV
In praise of short shows
Sometimes, enough is enough
Physical media matters
We can’t trust streaming services to archive entertainment
Names in the frame
All human emotions find their expression on the green baize
Are you not entertained?
The emptiness of popular culture
In defence of fandoms
One of the Internet’s villains has a brighter side
The TV boss who decides what you watch
Or does he?
The sad state of British film
Why do we accept comfortable irrelevance?
Chaos captivates
The newest season of Fauda is the most complex and thus the most satisfying so far
Unholy influences
The weird and not so wonderful world of influencers, and an open invitation to Theodore Dalrymple to get inked
Killer thrillers
The creators of Gangs of London could learn a lot from SAS Rogue Heroes
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
