Prime Target: a show so preposterous it’s almost addictive
This Apple TV+ thriller is derivative and extremely silly. And yet no producer seemed to think: is this too much?
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The sound of Auschwitz
A new documentary marking the 80th Holocaust Memorial Day tells the extraordinary story of the camp’s 15 orchestras.
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The left after Trump
In an age of rampant inequality and oligarchic government, two leading thinkers ask: can democratic socialism survive?
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What is Labour in power for?
The government is failing, the Tories are out of ideas. Welcome to Britain in 2025.
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The peace paradox
The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.
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The end of the old world order
Robert D Kaplan argues that in a time of uncertainty, we must resist radical change. But these cautionary tales are…
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Team Trump’s real feelings about Starmer’s Labour
From lagging defence spending to choosing Peter Mandelson as ambassador, the UK government is out of step with Maga.
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An abomination of an inauguration
The Maga vs the tech broligarchs battle has begun.
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Trump’s mission to save TikTok
Neither security concerns nor the law matter to the new president. Do they matter to us?
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The radical women who made modern dance
A new book explores three generations of dancers who looked beyond the stage to turn movement into a tool of…
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The monumental achievement of The Brutalist
Brady Corbet’s uncompromisingly long, high-concept epic about a Hungarian architect might seem pretentious – but it demands to be seen.
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The moderate voices of the English Civil War
A story of two friends who took opposite sides asks: does ideology always triumph over loyalty?
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Ralph Vaughan Williams’ bitter symphony
The composer’s exhilarating Sinfonia antartica was met with a mixed response on premiere – and still sits oddly in his…
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The myth of the teenager
Adolescents suffer from an image problem. Matilda Gosling’s Teenagers: The Evidence Base looks at the facts to dispel unhelpful stereotypes.
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The question of childlessness
With the fertility rate falling across the West, there is much more affecting parents’ decisions than the economy.
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Mark Watson: “Not to brag, but I’m looking at a Mastermind trophy right now”
The comedian on Derren Brown and finding happiness.
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Why Severance is the series for our times
The second season of Dan Erickson’s drama is just as bewildering and magnificent as the first.
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I am poorly but, for the first time in nearly two decades, I am unpoor
I knew something was up when I ordered a Negroni.
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America’s new plutocracy
The second Trump administration will be the wealthiest democratically elected government in history.
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