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
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
