The BAME killer – why Covid-19 is so serious for ethnic minorities
Is social deprivation the reason, as Sadiq Khan suggests?
Make Woke not Work
Social justice dons are de-skilling the Cambridge English Faculty
Reel hell of the Western Front
The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester
Polanski Politics
In light of the Césars drama, Christopher Silvester considers crime and censorship in film appreciation
Untrue story of the Kelly Gang
For a folk hero this Ned has zero contact with the ordinary Irish folk who will supposedly come to love him, says Christopher Silvester
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
Right-on cue
As usual, the Academy flagellates itself over insufficient African American Oscar contenders
Longing for more
Some of the greatest movies ever made were incredibly long. But is a film lasting 13 hours just too much?
The gang master
Martin Scorcese’s new Mafia movie is the culmination of a great career
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
