Alfred Hitchcock
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
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?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)