The Thick of It

Having spent years drafting municipal minutes and watching subcommittees debate font sizes on planning notices, one develops an enduring affection for institutional paralysis. The finest workplace...

The pleasure of Succession is watching people turn a need for approval into a business strategy. These series pursue the same appetite for status through finance, politics, faith, inherited wealth...

A speech can announce a policy; somebody still has to find the votes, manage the staff and live with the bargain that made it possible. These American, British, European, Australian and South...

The job should create the problems, the jokes and the uneasy alliances. These comedies get useful mileage from customers, deadlines, procedures, scarce resources and colleagues whose ideas of...