On Cinema
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
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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
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era