The Critics
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
A full musical meal
An unforgettable concert experience
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
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?
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
Beef stew
Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation