Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
Film novelisations
On the ladder of literature, film novelisation was once considered above only pornography
Martin Scorsese: rinse and repeat self-indulgence
The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent
Size isn’t necessarily substance
Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
