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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall