Awards Season
Nomadland takes the hat-trick
From digital streaming to diversity, Christopher Silvester rounds up the longest ever awards season
Diversity season again
Chloé Zhao is the first Asian woman likely to be nominated in the Best Director category for Nomadland, says Christopher Silvester
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
