Modern-day Ealing comedy
A quintessentially English spirit of wry rebellion lives on in two new films
What do the BAFTAs really stand for?
The awards used to be entertainingly eccentric
When bad reviews attack
Book reviews are not the preserve of the literary dilettantes — they have real power
A spy for all seasons
Who is the man behind “The IPCRESS File”?
Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Joie de vivre
Has the National Theatre brought back fun?
Noel Coward’s public genius
This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience
I am not what I am
Will the real David Mamet please stand up?
Hogging the spotlight
Souvenir Part II offers no hope for British cinema
Star stuck
Should we still care about Michelin stars?
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
