A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
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
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it