Action Movies
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
All action, no abstraction
On the hunks and lunks who dominated two decades of Hollywood
Boats and bombs
A Netflix winner, a Netflix disappointment and a classic American hero on Amazon Prime
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
