Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
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
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
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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
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”