David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre