The Dropout, review: enthralling tale of the Silicon Valley guru who duped Joe Biden

The Dropout (Disney+) does something that feels positively radical these days: it tells a story straightforwardly and in chronological order. No ricocheting between time periods, no introduction…

Why the BBC must open its archives in its 100th anniversary year

Those who did know about Khan would still have been swept away by the delicious incidental details, such as how female undercover wireless operators, forced to lug…

Penelope, review: Tom Stoppard’s 21st-century Odyssey sells its heroine short

Why are writers as diverse as Margaret Atwood, Wole Soyinka, Kamila Shamsie, Stephen Fry, Anne Carson and now, Tom Stoppard (who has reworked the Odyssey from the…