Christmas shows us why lives are worth saving
Like the ancient world, we have an inability to explain or even value ourselves
Why we’re fighting the Welsh lockdown
The life which we must preserve is not just that of the body, but of the soul also
Don’t shut our churches again
The Church is the only place we can find true deliverance from Covid
Cheques and balances
John Self says that while writing has always been seen as a vocation, the characters many authors care most about are the ones printed on their royalty statements
Cape crusader
Hannah Betts loves the theatrical flourish of a cloak
The wrong sort of women, again
View from Oxford: the Fortune Wheel of grievance spins yet again
Barbara Windsor – a life lived with a giggle
Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career
Hollywood whinge-fests undermine contemporary feminism
Hollywood is often a slimy, cynical business, but weaponizing feminism against a critic you don’t like is a new low
Impeachment Follies: The case against conviction
Paul du Quenoy argues that Democrats are unlikely to achieve their dream of removing their most dangerous rival from contention in 2024
Three days that shamed the world
Janine di Giovanni on the profoundly moving Oscar-nominated film that is teaching young Bosnian Serbs about the awful truth of the Srebrenica massacre
SantaClaustrophobia: Christmas in quarantine
However strict Australia’s quarantine measures may be, they appear to be a lot more effective than the UK’s laissez-faire approach
Why can Hollywood never get the King Arthur story right?
Like natural disasters, adaptations of the Arthurian legend seem to arrive about once a decade and leave devastation in their wake
Bedtime reading for boomers
You will search in vain for a new life of any rocker who made his name after the advent of punk