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Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
Taking the hawking cure
Are rental families a real thing?
Wuthering lows
This film is all style and no substance
Day after day
It is easy to lose sight of art amid personal narratives
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill