Academy Awards
Hollywood’s suicidal mission
How Aperture 2025, the Academy’s new set of equality and diversity regulations, will ultimately stifle creativity
Nomadland takes the hat-trick
From digital streaming to diversity, Christopher Silvester rounds up the longest ever awards season
Hopkins and Oldman: The very best of British actors
Following the recent Oscar nod for Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman, Alexander Larman looks at other parallels between the two thespians
In praise of women’s football
Don’t let the FA score an own goal by letting transwomen into women’s sports
A singular modern master
Architect John Outram fused high-tech and tradition to create his own unique style
Sob stories
Real men have grit in their eye
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
Women’s rights shouldn’t be up for debate
MPs need to stop questioning the rights of biological women
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
Good and evil on the new frontier
Our current ethical guidelines are hopelessly inadequate for a new era of unimaginable technological change