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The beloved classics that were repeatedly rejected
Anatomy of a British screen classic
The influential gold standard for perfect script and directing
Blood, squalor, and a taste of things to come
Japan’s brutal invasion of China witnessed by four very different literary adventurers
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area