TV
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
I miss the old BBC
The BBC has lost its way and things have to change
Bye bye BBC
Why it’s time for Auntie to say goodnight
Is Brexit a Christmas movie?
Rob Hutton watches telly so you don’t have to
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
