White Lines (TV Drama)
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes