Quickfire Matt Hancock is taking the Tories’ last shred of dignity with him to the jungle I do not want to see him eat a kangaroo’s penis. I do not want to see spiders crawl into his every orifice. And yet I… By Imogen West-Knights
Quickfire “We get it”: even the government uses the hollow language of corporate branding By Imogen West-Knights
TV Rowan Atkinson’s Man vs Bee: the most perplexing minutes I have ever spent watching TV By Imogen West-Knights
Netflix’s Clark is a failed attempt at self-aware true crime This dramatisation of the “Stockholm syndrome” bank robbery indulges its narcissistic, cruel subject far too much. By Imogen West-Knights
I thought I was over the naïve Nineties optimism of Friends. The reunion proved me wrong Friends may appear an apolitical relic, but like many millenials I can’t be objective about a programme that raised me. By Imogen West-Knights
The joy of returning to the cinema after lockdown A big, stupid blockbuster can only be so big and so stupid from your own living room. But what does a… By Imogen West-Knights
Is Line of Duty’s Steve Arnott the most boring man on television? Arnott is a black hole of a man: all defining details are simply sucked into his dark core of anti-character. By Imogen West-Knights
Who killed Olof Palme? For 30 years, the unsolved murder of the prime minister has haunted Sweden. Yet the identification of a culprit… By Imogen West-Knights
Why British prisons aren’t working A spate of recent memoirs by former inmates and staff reveal the shocking reality of life behind bars in… By Imogen West-Knights
How I discovered the unexpected joys of canvassing In a 2010 article titled “What is the point of canvassing?” the BBC referred to those who go door-knocking… By Imogen West-Knights
Life in the electoral wilderness In 1997 Tony Blair defeated John Major in a general election, ending nearly two decades of Tory rule. I… By Imogen West-Knights