From Jeffrey Dahmer to Adnan Syed: can true crime as entertainment ever be ethical?
Real life crime stories have long been treated as entertainment, but with the rise of global phenomenons like Serial and…
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True crime’s legal pay-offs give it a righteous gloss – but it’s still only shallow, manipulative entertainment
The thrill of the genre is that it lends a factual story a dramatic twist. In fact, it is as…
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The right-wing press were dismayed by the lack of dissent from the royalist consensus
The BBC let them down so badly that even the Daily Mail was compelled to admit that the broadcaster “caught…
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How to play the Queen
Elizabeth II’s reign was shaped by television. How will portrayals of her on screen determine her legacy?
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Olivia Wilde discovers Hollywood misogyny is as virulent as ever
Gossip from the set of Don’t Worry Darling shows the outrageous standards female filmmakers are still held to.
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What Emily Maitlis did next
The News Agents sees former BBC presenters finding their voice – and also their feet – in the world of…
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Why everyone wants to be friends with Edward Enninful
The editor of British Vogue is one of a select few magazine editors who has come to transcend his title.
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Spin to win your energy bills? We’re living in a Black Mirror dystopia
This Morning’s tone-deaf prize shows up our late-capitalist hellscape.
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