Female strength on film
Is Sir Ridley Scott a surprising feminist?
Sally Rooney and cultural boycotts
Rooney has now run into greater controversy than simple literary taste
Goodnight, Mr Bond
It’s time to let the man who saved the world, and the cinema, rest in peace.
In the shadows of giants
Why are so many still enthralled by even the most grotesque Victoriana?
Now then, now then
Should there be a new drama about Jimmy Savile?
“The new Liberace” strikes again
Nigel Kennedy’s latest principled stand against “Jurassic“ FM and the forces of musical conservatism
Is Nadine Dorries the best we have?
Love or loathe her, she’s never pretended to be anything other than a populist
Celebrity crime novelists: the latest literary fashion
Crime and thriller titles have replaced Strictly Come Dancing as the new craze for celebrities
Can GB News survive Andrew Neil’s departure?
Or will GB News turn into a right-wing echo chamber?
Red pill, blue pill
Is The Matrix best judged as cinema or cultural phenomenon?
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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
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways