The Talentless Mr Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein’s disruptive career in film
Heaven Knows He’s Miserable Now
The never-ending rise and fall of Morrissey
Antiquarian enterprises
The highs and lows of antiquarian bookselling
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
Is it art – or a trigger warning?
Once, the establishment might have left the unsavoury implications to the viewer’s own intelligence
Has the National Theatre lost its way?
Alexander Larman considers Rufus Norris’s vision, and the future of the National Theatre.
Is Jane Austen getting a bum deal?
As the new Emma comes to cinema screens, Alexander Larman considers the innumerable Austen remakes over the past 25 years
Tom Stoppard – The ‘timid libertarian’ speaks for himself
Like Wilde, Tom Stoppard has finally realised the importance of being earnest
Oscars so woke?
Predictability and cyclical trends at the 92nd Academy Awards
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
