The Critics
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
Most Read
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
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy