TV
Eastern promise
Three worthy TV shows now streaming that allow you to zip around the world with a few clicks
What to do with Channel 4
It could be a force for soft power
Mining the past
There is a deep appetite among Britain’s television audience for dramas that tackle complicated social issues
The fame game
Why has talking about books become the preserve of know-nothing celebrities?
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
Can Ncuti Gatwa save a tired franchise?
The new Dr Who is timely, not tokenistic
I am big, it’s freesat that got small
Rob Hutton takes dictation, very carefully, from our new proprietor
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
Between the cerebral and the warm
University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne was the quintessential Englishman
Grim up north
Two new Nordic dramas reveal a darker side to Scandi paradise
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
