Alfred Hitchcock
The men with the megaphone
A new history of movie directors is full of insight, felicitous phrases and subtle put-downs
Kirk Douglas and cancel culture
Do we believe all stories as true, or presume innocence until proven guilty?
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
