On Cinema
Longing for more
Some of the greatest movies ever made were incredibly long. But is a film lasting 13 hours just too much?
The gang master
Martin Scorcese’s new Mafia movie is the culmination of a great career
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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
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
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
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback