Television
Ignore the BBC bashers: the Corporation has had a good, old-fashioned election
It’s taken grief from all sides, just as it should. But not only has the national broadcaster learned a few new tricks, above all it has proven the value of a well-prepared interview
Highlighters out: this is the TV to watch over Christmas and the New Year
From Dracula to duffel coats, these are the programmes to set a reminder for—or circle in the TV guide—now
To banish neoliberalism, Labour should put sport back on free TV
Televising national sporting events like football and cricket is what economists would call a "public good"
The best TV in December 2019—Imagining with Lenny Henry and Whistleblower
Plus Apple TV's Truth Be Told
Catherine the Great, Criminal Justice and the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin—top television programmes for October
Helen Mirren turns 18th-century Russian empress in a new HBO series
The last interview with Bryan Magee
A great public intellectual passed away last month. Magee spent his life wonderstruck by the sheer fact of existence, for questions about the nature of reality are “obviously the most important and interesting there are”
Succession and a Confession—the best television in August and September 2019
Plus Netflix's The Great Hack
How Black Mirror became a product of the system it criticises
The dystopian television series is playing out one of its own plot lines
Against "performative abstinence": why no-one cares that you haven't watched Game of Thrones
Stop bragging that you haven't engaged with whatever TV show is popular right now—pop culture snobbery does no-one any favours
The best television in April 2019—Game of Thrones and Killing Eve
Plus David Attenborough goes to Netflix
The best television in January 2019
Plus Andrea Levy's The Long Song on screen
In 2019 we can defeat the online trolls
I challenged the controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and received a torrent of online abuse