Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Podcasting while Britain burns
OK, OK, it’s all very deplorable, but Britain’s right wing bloggers still have to make a living
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
Sue Gray’s inbox
As hacked by Robert Hutton
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Return to SENDer
Labour has created a real chance to reform SEND, writes Zachary Marsh — but will it take it?
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide