With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
