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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show