Al Capone
The mobster and the Method
Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
