On Cinema
The wild north
On screen savage battles, middle-aged villains, decline and disease are reviewed by Robert Hutton
Into thin Air
A pro-capitalist cinematic curiosity
Killer roles
The Dungeons & Dragons romp-com
Taking flight
Why planes make such a great setting for films
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
Animation grows up
Jibaro is an artistic triumph
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Day of the junta
Political thrillers from South America
Films for free
The digital preservation of thousands of Polish feature films and documentaries is a gift to international film culture
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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
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter