On Cinema
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
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
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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
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
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
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions