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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
Sheer murder? It must be Christmas
Just as Ana de Armas was the heart of the first Knives Out, Josh O’Connor is this one’s
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender