On Cinema
Sci-fi satire Mickey 17 misses the mark
There is a good short film here, inside a long bad one
Save the Prince Charles cinema!
It’s shabby, but we should embrace that
Black Bag is refreshingly good
The characters are well-drawn and every performance is terrific
Bob Dylan biopic: tangled up in true
Afterwards, we can explain to them why it’s got all the details completely wrong
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
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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
Burnham’s beginnings
Keir’s out and Andy’s in. But will anything meaningful change?
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home