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Tim Stanley
Television: Thriller that sends us to bed with shaking bones
i hate it when people describe television as a rollercoaster ride, but there is one sense in which line of duty (bbc one, sundays 9pm) fits ...
Television: In Sunderland, no one can hear you scream
every detective has to have a gimmick. vera stanhope’s is that she’s from the north. apart from wearing a floppy hat, i can’t see that she’s...
Television: The bored youths of Brexit Britain
i had some very bored summers as a child. and that was pre-internet. the suburbs are not designed for teenagers – is anywhere? – and there’s...
Television: In Broadchurch no one looks innocent
there’s quite a lot wrong with broadchurch (itv, mondays 9pm), the whodunnit set in a village of the damned on the english coast. it’s a vil...
Tim Stanley: Why the West should envy India
i wouldn’t say you “see” india so much as experience it. i’ve just returned from a two-week tour and my abiding memory is rubbish. rubbish, ...
Television: A most Anglican Sunday evening in
the rev richard coles has that classic anglican vicar look. a half-smile containing lots of teeth. wise, but wise enough not to let it show....
Television: Mum, you’re right: SS-GB isn’t very good
mum likes nothing more than to turn the television volume up to the highest setting and put the subtitles on at the same time. she says the ...
Television: A dangerously alluring Hitler documentary
netflix has put hitler: a career online, which is a bit of a surprise. when this two-and-a-half-hour documentary first hit cinemas in 1977, ...
Television: Cheap, predictable and an absolute joy
designated survivor (netflix) must have been easy to pitch: “it’s homeland meets house of cards.” “sounds good.” “plus we add jack bauer fro...
Television: Midlife affair is more disturbing than saucy
apple tree yard (bbc one, sundays, 9pm) sounds like a children’s television series, featuring a singing pig and dancing ducks. instead, it’s...
Television: To be a great talent show, it has to be bad
the bbc is simply too polite to do a talent show. the x factor, which remains the best, is cheerfully chavvy and rude. girls in tight dresse...
Silence shows that priests aren't therapists - they're here to help save our souls
Critics have reduced Silence to a missile in the culture wars. It's so much more than that
Scorsese shows us how the Church should be
i cried three times when watching silence at the covent garden odeon. which is surprising because it’s the least sentimental, most masculine...
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