On Cinema
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Row, row, row your boat
“The Boys On The Boat” is wholesome but unconvincing
Napoleon sold short
On Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and the challenge of biopics
My war stories
The role of the war film in British cinema
Wall St wolves
On money, morality and motive in three films
Sound of a free press?
How did a film wishing to highlight the sexual exploitation of children become a culture war?
Acting his age
What happens to film franchises when action heroes age?
We don’t need another (super)hero
The shrinking world of the superhero franchise film.
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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 Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration