TV
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
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
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive