Hollywood or Hollywoke?
Can drama successfully rewrite history to satisfy modern sensitivities?
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
What the Dickens!
150 years since Dickens’s death, Alexander Larman evaluates the memorialised writer’s questionable politics
The geek shall inherit the earth
How a studio was bullied into releasing the first cut of an unsuccessful film
Why does The Shining still scare us?
A large part of its appeal revolves around a simple fact, it is utterly terrifying
It ran in the family
Alexander Larman reviews Fall of the House of Byron, by Emily Brand
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
Can Christopher Nolan save the cinema-going experience?
It is not just Nolan’s reputation that is on the line if Tenet is released in July
Can theatres survive the crisis? And should they?
How can theatres come out of this, asks Alexander Larman
Abnormal People
The TV adaptation that reflects the falsity of campus novels
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
