British Film
Anatomy of a British screen classic
The influential gold standard for perfect script and directing
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Michael Powell: an auteur who loved to work with others
In our age of the Saw torture-porn franchise, Peeping Tom still has the capacity to disturb
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting