James Walton

Shocking: Channel 4’s Partygate reviewed

Plus: a fine, sure-footed start to BBC1's Boiling Point

Boris Johnson kept the rules coming – at least when he wasn’t (at ‘Party No. 7’) welcoming his underlings to ‘the most unsocially distanced occasion in the UK’. Credit: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4

  • Partygate

    Channel 4

  • Boiling Point

    BBC1

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